If there is a need to handle all log data in one place, then ELK is being touted as the best-in-class open source log analytics solution. There are an application as well as system logs. Logs are typically errors, warnings, and exceptions. ELK is a combination of three different products, namely Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK). The macro-level ELK architecture is given as follows:
- Elasticsearch is a search mechanism that is based on the Lucene search to store and retrieve its data. Elasticsearch is, in a way, a NoSQL database. That is, it stores multi-structured data and does not support SQL as ...