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Monday 26 October 2015
Kibana 4 Overview & Setup
Kibana 4 :
Kibana is a javascript library which allow us to create beautiful dashboard reports using elastic search data. It is an open source so that we can freely get it and used it as a data visualization plugin for elastic search.
It provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an ElasticSearch cluster.
Purpose:
User can create bar, line and scatter plots or pie charts and maps on top of large volumes of data.
Install Kibana 4 on Window:
Kibana configuration can be done with few easy steps:
1. Download it from this url.
2. Unzip the zip files and save it in some folder.
3. Open config/kibana.yml file and update property elasticsearch_url: "http://localhost:9200", if
it is not set as same.
To start Kibana, execute below command:
A server would get started and we can verify that by hitting url "http://localhost:5601"
Note: To run Kibana, elastic search needs to be running.
Regards,
Vidya Bhushan
Kibana is a javascript library which allow us to create beautiful dashboard reports using elastic search data. It is an open source so that we can freely get it and used it as a data visualization plugin for elastic search.
It provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an ElasticSearch cluster.
Purpose:
User can create bar, line and scatter plots or pie charts and maps on top of large volumes of data.
Install Kibana 4 on Window:
Kibana configuration can be done with few easy steps:
1. Download it from this url.
2. Unzip the zip files and save it in some folder.
3. Open config/kibana.yml file and update property elasticsearch_url: "http://localhost:9200", if
it is not set as same.
To start Kibana, execute below command:
A server would get started and we can verify that by hitting url "http://localhost:5601"
Regards,
Vidya Bhushan
Logstash Overview & Setup
Logstash:
Logstash is useful utility when it comes to play with Logs. It gives us in-built features to read from various file formats and perform some operations with it. One of the best feature it has is, we can read the logs in certain format e.g. Apache Logs, NGnix Logs, SysLogs etc. and put them into Elastic Search.
Install Logstash for Windows:
Few Easy Steps:
1. Download the required binary files from this url.
2. Unzip the downloaded file.
3. To enable use of Logstash from any directory, add the path to system variable using
environment variable settings.
And that's it. Its done and ready to use !!
Regards,
Vidya Bhushan
Logstash is useful utility when it comes to play with Logs. It gives us in-built features to read from various file formats and perform some operations with it. One of the best feature it has is, we can read the logs in certain format e.g. Apache Logs, NGnix Logs, SysLogs etc. and put them into Elastic Search.
Install Logstash for Windows:
Few Easy Steps:
1. Download the required binary files from this url.
2. Unzip the downloaded file.
3. To enable use of Logstash from any directory, add the path to system variable using
environment variable settings.
Regards,
Vidya Bhushan
ElasticSearch Overview & Setup
Elasticsearch:
Elasticsearch is a search server based on Lucene.
Apache Lucene is a open source information retrieval software library. It is suitable for any application that requires full text indexing and searching capability.
Elasticsearch is a search engine tool/platform which allows us to save the documents to be search in certain format and provides APIs to do full text search capabilities. In the recent times, because of its features like Open Source, Scalability, ease of use, it has become very popular among developer community. Elasticsearch provides a distributed, multinant-capable full text search engine with RESTFul web interface and scheme free JSON documents.
Install Elasticsearch on Windows:
Install Elastic Search is every easy, here are the steps for the same:
1. Download latest Elasticsearch zip file from this location.
2. Navigate to bin folder and double click on elasticsearch.bat file or navigate through command prompt:
The above command will start the elasticsearch service.
Note: The above command does not give any GUI, we need to install that by executing the below command :
Regards,
Vidya Bhushan
Install Elasticsearch on Windows:
Install Elastic Search is every easy, here are the steps for the same:
1. Download latest Elasticsearch zip file from this location.
2. Navigate to bin folder and double click on elasticsearch.bat file or navigate through command prompt:
The above command will start the elasticsearch service.
Note: The above command does not give any GUI, we need to install that by executing the below command :
Now we can hit http://localhost:9200/_plugin/head/ to see the Elasticsearch GUI.
Vidya Bhushan
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