Fabian Lee : Software Engineer

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

November 28, 2016
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

November 27, 2016
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

Logstash: Testing Logstash grok patterns locally on Windows

May 26, 2016
Categories: DevOps

If the logs you are shipping to Logstash are from a Windows OS, it makes it even more difficult to quickly troubleshoot a grok pattern being sent to the Logstash service. It can be beneficial to quickly validate your grok patterns directly on the Windows host. Here is an easy way to test a log … Logstash: Testing Logstash grok patterns locally on Windows