Log Management

Log Management is one of the key use cases of Elastic Stack, and it has been primarily used for this purpose for many years. There are many benefits of log management using Elastic Stack, and I'll explain Elastic Stack simplifies things when it comes to monitoring logs. Let's say you have a log file and you need to explore it to get the root cause of the application outage – how are you going to proceed? Where will you open the file and what are you going to search and filter? We just need to push the log data into Elasticsearch and configure Kibana to read this data. We can use Filebeat to read the log files, such as Apache access and error logs. Apart from system logs, we can also configure Filebeat to capture application logs. Instead of Filebeat, we can use Logstash to take file data as input and output it to Elasticsearch.