Shipping your logs to elk from mule app/cloudhub part 1
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This document provides an overview of shipping logs from a mule application or cloudhub to ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana). It defines what server logs are, why they are needed for incident reports, access logs, and analytics. The key tools needed are the ELK stack for indexing and visualization, Docker/Docker Compose for building isolated app containers, and log4j configuration. ELK is described as the standard for operational intelligence, with Elasticsearch indexing logs, Logstash retrieving and forwarding logs, and Kibana visualizing and analyzing logs. Docker is discussed as disrupting system administration by enabling building isolated apps in containers using Docker Compose.
Shipping your logs to elk from mule app/cloudhub part 1
- 1. Shipping your logs to ELK from mule app/cloudhub - Part 1 A guide by Alex Fernandez
- 2. Logs, Logs, Logs “A server log is a log file (or several files) automatically created and maintained by a server consisting of a list of activities it performed. A typical example is a web server log which maintains a history of page requests. “ Logs can contain information including client IP address, request date/time, page requested, HTTP code, bytes served, user agent, and referrer are typically added. This data can be combined into a single file, or separated into distinct logs, such as an access log, error log, or referrer log -Wikipedia
- 3. Why do we need logs? - Incident Reports - Access Logs - Analytics A bird’s eye view of what is happening to the application
- 4. Tools that we need 1. ELK stack 2. docker/docker-compose 3. log4j configuration 4. Cloudhub Account
- 5. ELK stack ELK(Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) has been the de facto standard for “Operational Intelligence” Elasticsearch for indexing logs Logstash for ‘retrieval’ and ‘forwarder’ of logs Kibana for visualizing and analysis of logs
- 6. Docker-Compose Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether on laptops, data center VMs, or the cloud. Docker had disrupted the world of system administration and making it the de facto of building isolated apps. Docker-compose is a tool used for building ‘docker’ containers as a group using a single command.