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title: "ELK Stack"
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ring: adopt
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quadrant: platforms-and-aoe-services
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The company behind Elasticsearch offers a very nice solution for logging and analysis of distributed data such as logfiles.
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In today's increasingly distributed IT systems, it's very helpful to have a central view of what is going on in your systems - and of course nobody can and wants to look in different logfiles on different servers.
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A central logging solution provides the option to detect potential relationships between different events more easily.
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Also, also it can be used to extract useful KPIs or to visualize information on dashboards.
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The abbreviation "[ELK](https://www.elastic.co/products) Stack" stands for the Tools <u>E</u>lasticsearch, <u>L</u>ogstash and <u>K</u>ibana:
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Together, they provide a solution for collecting data the ability to search, visualize and analyze data in real time.
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Logstash is used to process and forward different data (or logfile) formats.
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Elasticsearch is used as a search index and together with the Kibana plugin you can configure highly individual dashboards.
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Recently, there are also the Beats Tools joining this toolstack to ship data to Elasticsearch.
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We have been using the ELK Stack for several years now in several projects and different infrastructure setups - we use it to visualize traffic, certain KPIs or just to analyze and search in application logs.
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We encourage all teams to use such a solution and take care to write useful logs in your applications.
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