Installing ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana

Once you have established a policy to control retention, archiving, and centralization of your logs, you can consider how best to extract the data from them. Log analysis software has seen some serious growth in recent years, as an increasing number of systems administrators, developers, and managers realize the value of the data they can provide. Currently, Splunk has gained a great number of traction, offering both an easy-to-install and easy-to-use product with a great deal of integrations; however, it can be costly with a pricing model that ratchets up along with the quantities of data you wish to analyze. This has led to open source projects springing up and aiming to rival Splunk, in particular, ...

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