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Elasticsearch

A collection of 24 posts

May 4, 2020

Snapshot and Restore Indices on Elasticsearch

Tutorial on how to create Snapshots on Elasticsearch using AWS S3 and how to restore your cluster from a Snapshot

Elasticsearch AWS S3

September 22, 2019

Shipping your Logs from Docker Swarm to Elasticsearch with Fluentd

In this tutorial we will ship our logs from our containers running on docker swarm to elasticsearch using fluentd with the elasticsearch plugin. We will also make use of tags to apply extra metadata to our logs making it easier…

Fluentd Elasticsearch Docker Swarm

June 14, 2019

Setup a Logstash Server for Amazon Elasticsearch Service and Auth with IAM

As many of you might know, when you deploy a ELK stack on Amazon Web Services, you only get E and K in the ELK stack, which is Elasticsearch and Kibana. Here we will be dealing with Logstash on EC2.…

Logstash Elasticsearch Kibana AWS IAM

April 10, 2019

Secure your Elasticsearch Cluster with Basic Auth using Nginx and SSL from Letsencrypt

In this tutorial we will setup a reverse proxy using nginx to translate and load balance traffic through to our elasticsearch nodes. We will also protect our elasticsearch cluster with basic auth and use letsencrypt to retrieve free ssl certificates.…

Nginx SSL Elasticsearch Letsencrypt Reverse-Proxy

April 10, 2019

Setup Kibana Dashboards for Nginx log Analysis

In this tutorial we will setup a Basic Kibana Dashboard for a Web Server that is running a Blog on Nginx. What do we want to achieve?We will setup common visualizations to give us an idea on how our…

Kibana Elasticsearch BigData Analytics Filebeat

April 2, 2019

Setup a 5 Node Highly Available Elasticsearch Cluster

This is post 1 of my big collection of elasticsearch-tutorials which includes, setup, index, management, searching, etc. More details at the bottom. In this tutorial we will setup a 5 node highly available elasticsearch cluster that will consist of 3…

Elasticsearch NoSQL Analytics Clustering

March 31, 2019

Ship your Logs to Elasticsearch with Filebeat

Filebeat by Elastic is a lightweight log shipper, that ships your logs to Elastic products such as Elasticsearch and Logstash. Filbeat monitors the logfiles from the given configuration and ships the to the locations that is specified. Filebeat OverviewFilebeat runs…

Elasticsearch Filebeat Logging Analytics Monitoring

February 23, 2019

Pretty Stoked when I got mentioned on Twitter about Elastic APM

Elastic APM So for the last month or so I've been playing a lot with Elastic's Application Performance Metrics. Elastic APM is an application performance monitoring system. It allows you to monitor software services and applications in real time, collecting…

APM Elasticsearch Monitoring

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