ELK Stack and Application Discovery

The talk I gave at a local meetup I co-organize and in the company retreat at madewithlove. There was also a little demo where I had the ELK stack running using docker and making some nice charts using an apache log.

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1. ELK stack and application discovery Tony Messias
3. what is a log?
4. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logfile “(...) records either events that occur in an operating system or other software runs, or messages (...)”
5. the lifecycle of a log file Event Record Analyse Delete
6. the lifecycle of a log file Event Analyse Record Delete
7. your log can answer a lot of questions
8. what are the most used browsers in our application?
9. which countries we have more users from?
10. how many users have signed up since the marketing campaign started?
11. what is the best time for a deploy?
12. which landing page have converted more users (A/B testing)?
13. check the database, right?
14. check your logs
16. and I have scaled my application...
20. ELK stack to the rescue!
21. what does ELK mean?
22. ELK stands for
26. ELK architecture
27. ELK architecture
28. you can analyse old logs too
29. not just for apache logs • webserver • application • database • businness (logging commands and events*)
30. kibana is not only a dashboard
32. that’s it! questions?
33. references • https://www.elastic.co/webinars/introduction-elk-stack • https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch- logstash-and-kibana-4-on-ubuntu-14-04 • https://speakerdeck.com/elasticsearch/introduction-to-the-elk-stack • https://speakerdeck.com/peterskim12/introduction-to-the-elk-stack • http://www.slideshare.net/GlobalLogicUkraine/the-elk-stack-get-to-know-logs- igor-rudyk • http://www.slideshare.net/larrycai/learn-elk-in-docker • https://speakerdeck.com/odolbeau/when-monolog-meet-elk