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The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit
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The DevOps 2.5 Toolkit

by Viktor Farcic
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
322 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Exploring centralized logging through Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana

Elasticsearch is probably the most commonly used in-memory database. At least, if we narrow the scope to self-hosted databases. It is designed for many other scenarios, and it can be used to store (almost) any type of data. As such, it is almost perfect for storing logs which could come in many different formats. Given its flexibility, some use it for metrics as well and, as such, Elasticsearch competes with Prometheus. We'll leave metrics aside, for now, and focus only on logs.

The EFK (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana) stack consists of three components. Data is stored in Elasticsearch, logs are collected, transformed, and pushed to the DB by Fluentd, and Kibana ...

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