ELK stack

A set of three open tools that together collect, store, search and chart logs: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana.

Logstash receives and transforms log lines, Elasticsearch indexes them for fast search, and Kibana shows them in dashboards. It is a common way to aggregate logs from many servers in one place. Lighter shippers such as Beats often replace Logstash at the edge.

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