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ELK: Installing MetricBeat for collecting system and application metrics


Categories: DevOps, Monitoring

ElasticSearch’s Metricbeat is a lightweight shipper of both system and application metrics that runs as an agent on a client host.  That means that along with standard cpu/mem/disk/network metrics, you can also monitor Apache, Docker, Nginx, Redis, etc. as well as create your own collector in the Go language. In this article we will describe installing … ELK: Installing MetricBeat for collecting system and application metrics

ELK: Architectural points of extension and scalability for the ELK stack


Categories: DevOps

The ELK stack (ElasticSearch-Logstash-Kibana), is a horizontally scalable solution with multiple tiers and points of extension and scalability. Because so many companies have adopted the platform and tuned it for their specific use cases, it would be impossible to enumerate all the novel ways in which scalability and availability had been enhanced by load balancers, … ELK: Architectural points of extension and scalability for the ELK stack

ELK: Feeding the logging pipeline


Categories: DevOps

The most varied point in an ELK (Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana) stack is the mechanism by which custom events and logs will get sent to Logstash for processing. Companies running Java applications with logging sent to log4j or SLF4J/Logback will have local log files that need to be tailed.  Applications running in containers may send everything to stdout/stderr, … ELK: Feeding the logging pipeline