Elastic Stack is available as a Software, a Docker based Container as well as a Service by many Cloud service providers like AWS and others.

Logstash is a server-side data processing pipeline that receives data from multiple sources simultaneously, transform it and then send it to Elasticsearch.

Kibana is an open source data visualization plugin for Elasticsearch.

It provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an Elasticsearch cluster.

User can create bar, line and scatter plots, or pie charts and maps on top of large volume of data.

In this article, we are installing Elastic Stack 7.2 on CentOS 7 server.

If you are eager to learn more about Elastic Stack usage then you should read Learning Elastic Stack 7.0: Distributed search, analytics, and visualization using Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, and Kibana, 2nd Edition by Packt Publishing.

This Article Provides: Elastic Stack Features: Detailed list of Elastic features are provided by Elasticsearch official website.

Some recommended hardware specifications are mentioned in Elasticsearch documentation.

Therefore, we have to install a supported version of JDK (Java Development Kit) to be installed on our CentOS 7 server.

Environment Specification: Based on Elastic stack system requirements, we have configured a CentOS 7 based virtual machine with following specification.

You can also install yum repoositories for previous versions of Elastic stack using the same procedure.

We can now install Elastic stack components on our CentOS 7 server.

Created symlink from etcsystemdsystemmulti-user.target.wantselasticsearch.service to usrlibsystemdsystemelasticsearch.service.

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: If the number of processors is expected to increase from one, then you should configure the number of parallel GC threads appropriately using -XX:ParallelGCThreadsN.

Created symlink from etcsystemdsystemmulti-user.target.wantslogstash.service to etcsystemdsystemlogstash.service.

Created symlink from etcsystemdsystemmulti-user.target.wantskibana.service to etcsystemdsystemkibana.service.

Otherwise, we have to install Elasticsearch yum repository before installing Filebeat on other CentOS 7 machines.

Created symlink from etcsystemdsystemmulti-user.target.wantsfilebeat.service to usrlibsystemdsystemfilebeat.service.

Delete Replies Reply Reply Cristian Segura L.

August 2019 at 06:02 Nice tutorial.

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