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ELK: Installing MetricBeat for collecting system and application metrics

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: Federated Search with a Tribe node

Although the ELK stack has rich support for clustering, clustering is not supported over WAN connections due to Elasticsearch being sensitive to latency.  There are also practical concerns of network throughput given how much data some installations index on an hourly basis. So as nice as it would be to have a unified, eventually consistent ELK: Federated Search with a Tribe node

ELK: Pointing Kibana to a Client Node

Kibana is the end user web application that allows us to query Elasticsearch data and create dashboards that can be used for analysis and decision making. Although Kibana can be pointed to any of the nodes in your Elasticsearch cluster, the best way to distribute requests across the nodes is to use a non-master, non-data ELK: Pointing Kibana to a Client Node