ELK is the acronym for three open source tools—Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. It is also called Elastic Stack. The heart of this system is Elasticsearch, a search engine based on another open source project written in Java, Apache Lucene. This library is especially suitable for applications that require full-text searches in cross-platform environments. The main reason for the popularity of Elasticsearch is its performance. Of course, it has some other advantages, such as scalability, flexibility, and easy integration by providing a RESTful, JSON-based API for searching stored data. It has a large community and many use cases, but the most interesting one for us is its ability to store and search logs ...
Centralizing logs with ELK Stack
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