Understanding the ELK Stack with Practical Examples
This article is for those who want to learn about the ELK stack, specifically how Elasticsearch, LogStash, and Kibana communicate and what each project’s responsibilities are. When I decided to explore Elasticsearch a few years back, I was amazed with its capabilities; with the well-documented API, I had no trouble indexing my hello world documents. I was working with Apache Solr and Lucene at the time, and I recall having some trouble comprehending this stack, which was also hard to install locally. When I was comparing Elasticsearch, Solr, and Sphinx, I read that Elasticsearch indexes documents more faster than Solr + Lucene. Then I thought, huh, interesting. I encourage you do this, not to criticize projects, but to understand where the projects are suitable. ...