Questions tagged [elastic]

Questions related to elastic.

Elastic consists of various products, including elasticsearch, kibana, beats and logstash.

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How good are heartbeat, elasticsearch and kibana as a monitoring/alerting solution as a replacement for Nagios?

Since we already have filebeat, metricbeat and heartbeat configured and running. I wonder if people have successfully implemented the ELK stack for actual monitoring with alerting/notifications instead of using traditional software…
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Backing up an ephemeral Elasticsearch installation

I have an installation of Elasticsearch without persistence running and I need to back it up so we can move it to a persistent setup. What are safe ways to do this and keep the data in the ES database? It is running and I want to avoid shutting it…
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What are best practices for implementing and using Elastic in an organization?

At the moment there are multiple microservices that log to individual files. If there is an issue then the team is debugging like headless chickens. In order to prevent this the aim is to introduce aggregated logging, e.g. elastic. What are best…
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Sending Exceptions to Elastic Stack via REST

I am working with devs wishing to replace Exceptionless, a Real-time exception reporting tool. They wish to send the exceptions from a web app that they would previously send to Exceptionless to our ELK stack. I am only experienced with using Beats…
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