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.
Author Name: JP Toto
Author Description:
JP is a recovering enterprise consultant now living in the SaaS software products world. He has been writing C# for about ten years and has more recently picked up Ruby, Python, and some occasional GoLang, although recently Devops is where his heart has been. He makes his home in Philadelphia, PA where he works in financial technology at a great company called eMoney Advisor. He smokes his own bacon and is a sucker for delicious cured meats.

Table of Contents

• 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