ELK data pipeline

A typical ELK stack data pipeline looks something like this:

ELK data pipeline

In a typical ELK Stack data pipeline, logs from multiple application servers are shipped through Logstash shipper to a centralized Logstash indexer. The Logstash indexer will output data to an Elasticsearch cluster, which will be queried by Kibana to display great visualizations and build dashboards over the log data.

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