Elasticsearch is a web based search engine released in 2010 that provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine and schema-free JSON documents based on the Lucene library. You can use many differents tools to send logs to Elasticsearch, including Filebeat product from ElasticSearch developers. Elastisearch offer different software for sending data such as: Filebeat, Metricbeat[1], Packetbeat, Winlogbeat, Auditbeat, Heartbeat and Functionbeat

ElastaticSearch is also available as a docker image[2] or as service in AWS (AWS Elasticsearch) since November 2015.[3]

Installation

Activities

  1. Read ElasticSearch release notes: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases
  2. Install ElasticSearch using Docker: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docker.html
/usr/share/elasticsearch/config/elasticsearch.yml
To connect: http://localhost:9200/
  1. Install Elasticsearch-hq management GUIs for Elasticsearch

See also

  • AWS Elasticsearch service
  • Kibana open source data visualization plugin for ElasticSearch.
  • Logstash
  • Filebeat software for sending logs
  • Cerebro, Newman/Postman or Elasticsearch-hq management GUIs for Elasticsearch
  • Grafana, Curator[5]

References

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