Before we begin, lets see what a ELK stack is made of. ELK stacks are comprised of ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kabina with each of these services preforming different jobs. This diagram from Logz.io explains its the best Beats are installed to each host to collect the various metrics used by these services. Logstash is responsible
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ELK (or Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is a set of three technologies by elastic that can be combined to collect and visualize log data. Think of it as rsyslog on steroids and with pretty colors. First off, this guide is written using examples from an Arch Linux host. Theoretically, you should be able to follow
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Filebeat is the tool used to forward logs from a client to an ELK server. It can be seen as equivalent to using rsyslog to forward to a syslog server. I’ve recently finished setting up an ELK server at Rob and I’s apartment, and have been setting VM’s that we run to forward their logs
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