by Jurgens du Toit | May 5, 2015 | Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash
One of the things I love about DigitalOcean is their applications. You can spin up a droplet to run a number of popular stacks. From LAMP, Redmine and Ghost, to Docker, Django and WordPress. My favourite, of course, is the ELK stack application. It’s a Ubuntu...
by Jurgens du Toit | Apr 15, 2015 | Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch doesn’t come with any type of security out of the box. It’s so open and accessible, anyone can destroy all of your data with a single call. Yes, there is protection against the DELETE call, but it is possible. Recently Elastic released the...
by Jurgens du Toit | Jan 14, 2015 | Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Use Cases
The ELK stack is all about capturing data and reporting on it in a meaningful way. Tracking website visitors and traffic is also all about capturing data and reporting on it in a meaningful way. Since that’s the main aim of the ELK stack, you can very easily...