The ELK Stack: From the Creators of Elasticsearch | Elastic

"ELK" is the acronym for three open source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Logstash is a server‑ ... ElasticStackWhatistheELKStack?Why,it’stheElasticStack.Letusexplain.Checkoutourgetting started video.So,whatistheELKStack?"ELK"istheacronymforthreeopensourceprojects:Elasticsearch,Logstash,andKibana.Elasticsearchisasearchandanalyticsengine.Logstashisaserver‑sidedataprocessingpipelinethatingestsdatafrommultiplesourcessimultaneously,transformsit,andthensendsittoa"stash"likeElasticsearch.KibanaletsusersvisualizedatawithchartsandgraphsinElasticsearch. TheElasticStackisthenextevolutionoftheELKStack. Itstartedwith Elasticsearch…Theopensource,distributed,RESTful,JSON-basedsearchengine.Easytouse,scalableandflexible,itearnedhyper-popularityamongusersandacompanyformedaroundit,youknow,forsearch. AnditgrewwithLogstashandKibanaAsearchengineatheart,usersstartedusingElasticsearchforlogsandwantedtoeasilyingestandvisualizethem.EnterLogstash,thepowerfulingestpipeline,andKibana,theflexiblevisualizationtool.Thecommunitygotlarger,theusecasesmore numerousWhetheritwastofindthetopNresultsinajungleoftext-baseddocuments,analyzesecurityevents,orfreelysliceanddicemetrics,theworldwidecommunitykeptpushingboundarieswithELK.ThenwedroppedaBeaton ELK"Ijustwanttotailafile,"userssaid.Andwelistened.In2015,weintroducedafamilyoflightweight,single-purposedatashippersintotheELKStackequation.WecalledthemBeats.So,wheredidthatleave ELK?Inafunnyposition,really.DowecallitBELK?BLEK?ELKB?Thethreatofacronymalphabetsoupificationwasreal.Forastacksoscalable,theacronymreallywasn't. Enter,theElastic StackThesameopensourceproductsusersknowandlove,onlybetterintegrated,morepowerful,easiertogetstartedwith,andbrimmingwithpossibility.TOSUMITUPTheElasticStackistheELKStack,butwithmoreflexibilitytodogreat things. Experienceityourself.Gomake something. DownloadDeployTheAdventuresofELK#1#2#3#4