November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
322 pages
7h 3m
English
Now that we had Elasticsearch running in our cluster and knowing that it can handle almost any data type, a logical question could be whether we can use it to store our metrics besides logs. If you explore elastic.co (https://www.elastic.co/), you'll see that metrics are indeed something they advertise. If it could replace Prometheus, it would undoubtedly be beneficial to have a single tool that can handle not only logs but also metrics. On top of that, we could ditch Grafana and keep Kibana as a single UI for both data types.
Nevertheless, I would strongly advise against using Elasticsearch for metrics. It is a general-purpose free-text no-SQL database. That means that it can handle almost any ...
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