ELK(Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana) stack in 1 hour

Topics covered:

• ELK Setup
• ELK Configuration

ELK Setup

Note: I have used the latest version (as of December 2015) of ELK in this document.

1. cd ~
2. mkdir installs

3. Download the tools

   1. Download elasticsearch 2.1.1 here
   2. Download logstash 2.0.1 here
   3. Download Kibana 4.3.0 here

4. Untar the files in installs folder and rename to elasticsearch, logstash and kibana respectively (tar xvf xxxxx.tar.gz)

ELK Configuration

Configuring Logstash:

1. Create a conf file: