Kibana is basically the visualisation tool of Elasticsearch. In this blog you can find the installation procees of all the parts of ELK – Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana. If you havn’t yet installed Elasticsearch and logsatsh feel free to click: How to install and configure Elasticsearch How to install and configure Logstash So first, let’s brifely go over the purpose of Kibana in the ELK stack This picture is very helpfull to understanding what is the purposes of Kibana. 1. The data of the logs is being collected by Logsatsh 2. Elasticsearch stores the data and  allows full text search, structured search, performing analytics etc. 3.Visualise data – in a browser-based analytics and search dashboard Step 1: Installation The first step is getting the installation...
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In this post I will explain the very simple setup of Logstash on an EC2 server and a simple configuration that takes an input from a log file and puts it in Elasticsearch. If you don’t already have an Elasticsearch server feel free to click: how to install and configure elasticsearch in aws Step 1: Installation The first step is getting the installation from the official website: [root@logstash ~] wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/logstash/logstash/packages/centos/logstash-1.4.2-1_2c0f5a1.noarch.rpm next, install the rpm using yum: [root@logstash ~] yum install logstash-1.4.2-1_2c0f5a1.noarch.rpm Now that was easy…we’re done with the installation already Step 2: configuration For the configuration part, edit the following file: [root@logstash ~]  vi /etc/logstash/conf.d/logstash.conf This is the main configuration file of logstash. let’s put a simple configuration that...
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Elasticsearch is a distributed, open source search and analytics engine. In this post I will show you the easiest way to install Elasticsearch and get it running in your AWS server. Step 1: installation The first step is downloading the installation from the official website using the wget command (don’t forget sudo su – first): [root@elasticsearch ~]wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.4.1.noarch.rpm The second step is installing the package we downloaded using yum install: [root@elasticsearch ~]yum install elasticsearch-1.4.1.noarch.rpm Next simply enter the new elsaticsearch directory: [root@elasticsearch ~]cd /usr/share/elasticsearch/ In this directory you’ll need to install a few simply plugins. One of the is the special pluging for AWS so in this case it’s the most important one. So simply copy the following commands: [root@elasticsearch...
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