What is elk stack?

Question

Can anyone explain to me what exactly is Elk stack?

Answer 1

Elk stack is the stack of Elastic search, Logstash, and Kibana platform. All these platforms are open-source platforms and combined to help the users in running log analysis.

Elastic search is used to make fast data extractions and provide real-time data insights from structured and unstructured data.

Logstash is a tool that takes different logs like systems logs, web server logs, etc. and process those logs and sends output to elastic search.

Kibana is a visualization platform like Tableau and PowerBi for making dashboards with insightful trends and patterns in data.

If you are interested in learning ELK Stack, you can take up this DevOps Certification by Intellipaat.

Also, check out this ELK certification training to learn the concepts from experts.

You can watch this video on ELK tutorial for beginners for a better understanding: