Tutorial on how to create Snapshots on Elasticsearch using AWS S3 and how to restore your cluster from a Snapshot
Elasticsearch
A collection of 24 posts
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…