I am new to the ELK and i am in the progress of learning it. In my project, they are importing the data from Amazon S3 -> File Beat -> logstash -> Elastic search -> Kibanna.
In the logstash file, they have directly importing the data and sending to the Elastic search something like below and there was no indexes mentioned in the config file,
output elasticsearch
{
hosts => ["http://localhost:9200"]
}
In Amazon s3, we have logs from Salesforce and in future we are going to implement from multiple sources.
In Elastic search, i could see 41 indexes(Used Get Curl script) is present. Assume if we keep the same setup in logstash, then all logs(Multiple sources) will be sent to elastic search in same manner. I would like to know how the data is getting mapped to the particular index in elastic search ??
In many tutorials, they have given indexes in the logstash config file so in kibanna we could see the index name along with timestamp. I have tried to check by placing a sample Mulesoft log file in Amazon S3 but i cant able to find those data in Kibanna. So shall i need to create one more new index with a name Mule along with mappings??
There is no ELK expert in my project so please guide me on how to approach this one or any references will be more helpful.
This page (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-outputs-elasticsearch.html) documents Logstash's Elasticsearch output plugin.
As you can see in the Configuration Options section, the option index is not mandatory. If this option is not specified, its default-value is logstash-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}.
With that being said, the documents will get indexed into indices with the prefix 'logstash-' followed by the date of ingestion. For example:
logstash-2020.04.07
logstash-2020.04.08
Since someone in your organization has chosen to go with the default value, this option can be left out. This explains why you can't find a particular index name in the Logstash configuration. If you need to index documents into different indices, then you'd have to set a particular value for the index option.
Elasticsearch will automatically create these indices with a dynamic mapping (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/dynamic-mapping.html) if you haven't setup an explicit mapping via index templates in advance. In order to see the data in kibana, you first need to create an index pattern matching the index name.
I hope I could help you.
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I have 15 log files which are connecting to some services and saving data. I am uploading the data for these log files in elastic search using td-agent. I have created index pattern for each log files in td-agent-config file. I have log files with name as:
health_sqlservice
health_tcpservice
health_pingservice
and so on. So I have also created the name as index pattern. In elasticsearch, instead of adding all the 15 index pattern, I have created index pattern as health_* so under this index pattern, all the 15 logs data is saved. I can then easily query and create dashboard for the list of services currently running.
But I also want to check the service which is offline. Which means I need to check which are the index pattern data not coming in elasticsearch. I have tried looking for this online but didn't get any results on how to show list of offline index pattern data. Can anyone please give some good suggestions. Please help. Thanks
I am trying to Use my Elastic search server installed in my local machine to use Postman .i.e., With the help of Postman I want to Post Data and retrieve it with a get operation but unable to do it as I am getting error unknown key [High] for create index
So please help me with the same.
If you want to add a document to your index,
your url should look something like this ( for document ID 1 ) :
PUT http://localhost:9200/test/_doc/1
A good place to start :
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/getting-started-index.html
For indexing document in the index
PUT http://localhost:9200/my_index/_doc/1
Retrieving indexed document
GET http://localhost:9200/my_index/_doc/1
Introduction:
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of addressing a growing number of use cases. As the heart of the Elastic Stack, it centrally stores your data for lightning fast search, fine‑tuned relevancy, and powerful analytics that scale with ease.
Kibana is a free and open user interface that lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack. Do anything from tracking query load to understanding the way requests flow through your apps.
Logstash is a free and open server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from a multitude of sources, transforms it, and then sends it to your favorite “stash.” .
Elasticsearch exposes itself through rest API so in this case you don't have to use logstash as we are directly adding data to elastic search
How to add it directly
you can create an index and type using :
{{url}}/index/type
where index is like a table and type is like just a unique data type that we will be storing to the index. Eg {{url}/movielist/movie
https://praveendavidmathew.medium.com/visualization-using-kibana-and-elastic-search-d04b388a3032
I'm using Clevercloud to host my application and I want to store logs in an Elasticsearch index. I read the documentation here and I tried to create a drain as explained. I was able to create the drain but no data has been added in my Elasticsearch.
Somebody has an idea ?
I found the solution : I couldn't see datas because I was looking at the wrong ES index. Even if you specified an index in your URL, logs are in logstash format so by default it will create a new index per day named logstash-YYYY-MM-DD. The datas was in those indexes.
I'm new to elasticsearch and this is a question I've been trying to find an answer to. Basically I have around a thousand documents that I would like elasticsearch to index for me. Do I have to write a bash/python script that would just use CURL to put/post all these documents in my elasticsearch server or can I configure my server so that it would automatically index documents in a specific folder/location on disk when I start it up for the first time?
I far as I know Elasticsearch does not have any option for pulling document to index itself. As you mentioned you need to create a script and push your documents to ES yourself.
How are events indexed and stored by Elasticsearch when using ELK (Elastichsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
How does Elasticsearch work in ELK
Looks like you got downvoted for not just reading up at elastic.co, but...
logstash picks up unstructured data from log files and other sources, transforms it into structured data, and inserts it into elasticsearch.
elasticsearch is the document repository. While it's not useful for log information, it's a text engine at heart and can analyze the data (tokenization, stop words, stemming, etc).
kibana reads from elasticsearch and allows you to explore the data and make dashboards.
That's the 30,000-ft overview.
Elasticsearch have the function of database on ELK Stack.
You can read more information about Elasticsearch and ELK Stack here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/index.html.
first of all you will have logs file that you used to write system logs on it
for example when you add new record to database you will write the record in any form you need to log file like
date,"name":"system","serial":"1234" .....
after that you will add your configuration in logstash to parse the data from the logs
and it will be like
name : system
.....
and the data will saved in elastic search
kibana is used to preview the elastic search data
and you can use send a request to elasticsearch with the required query and get your data from it