ElasticSearch ecosystem

Quick introduction to the ELK stack

• ElasticSearch
• Logstash
• Kibana

ElasticSearch

Full text search engine similar to Solr

Lucene based

"Elastic" scaling

Advanced analysis using aggregation

Easy to understand JSON query syntax

Logstash

Tool to export logs to ElasticSearch

Possible filtering / extraction of data

Easy way to export logs from multiple servers to central repository

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Kibana

Data analysis through time based aggregations

Visualization building

Dashboard

Caveat:
Almost only for time based data

No support for nested document

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Only useful for log analysis?

Other useful tools

Marvel

• Monitoring agent installed on each ES node
• Plugin on Kibana to see analyze extracted data

Sense

• Kibana plugin to write and tests elasticsearch queries

Links to ours!

ELK

ES cluster dashboard

Kibana

Marvel

Sense