Centralized Logging with the Elastic Stack: Getting Started

The Elastic Stack is one of the most effective ways to leverage open source technology to build a central logging, monitoring, and alerting system for servers and applications. This course will teach you how to setup of the Elastic Stack.

It can be quite difficult to create a centralized dashboard and repository for all alerting, monitoring, and logging for a company-wide server infrastructure. In this course, Centralized Logging with the Elastic Stack: Getting Started, you'll learn how to leverage tools like Elasticsearch, Kibana, and the Beats tools to do exactly that. First, you'll build a back end repository using Elasticsearch. Then, you'll start to deploy Filebeats, Metricbeat, Winlogbeat, and more to target servers. Finally, you'll learn how to coalesce all that data into useful charts and dashboards in order to monitor the status of server resources. As a bonus, you'll also learn how to to setup active alerting to send messages to email, SMS, Slack, Hipchat, and more. When you've completed this course, you'll have the skills to setup a completely open source alerting, monitoring, and logging system from scratch.

• Course Overview 1min
• Introduction 9mins
• Configuring Elasticsearch 15mins
• Installing Logstash 9mins
• Visualizing with Kibana 7mins
• Instrumenting Windows Servers 43mins
• Instrumenting Linux Servers 17mins
• Instrumenting Network Traffic 10mins
• Instrumenting IIS Logs 11mins
• Alerting with Watcher 14mins