The Elastic stack consists of the following components:
- Elastic Search - A fast search engine for analyzing and storing data
- Logstash - A data aggregator that transforms it and sends it to a storage engine
- Kibana - A presentation layer for the data
- Beats - Lightweight shippers for data
- Filebeat - A shipper for logs
Note:
The Elastic Stack has other components that are missing from the previous list because this workshop has not covered them yet.
To start the containers, run the following command on the folder of Elastic:
docker-compose up -d
To stop the containers, simply run the following command on the Elastic folder:
docker-compose down
To access the kibana app go to http://localhost:5601.