ELK stack installation guide
An ELK stack is a stack existing of 3 open source products: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. Elasticsearch is a full-text search and analysis engine and based on Apache Lucene. Logstash is used to collect data from various input sources and log it. Kibana is a tool used to visualize ElasticSearch.
For a Dockerized setup on Windows we used the repository underneath: https://github.com/deviantony/docker-elk
Docker Engine version 17.05 or newer Docker Compose version 1.20.0 or newer 1.5 GB of RAM
Run git clone https://github.com/deviantony/docker-elk.git
Run cd docker-elk
Run docker-compose up -d
To check if Elastic is working use url: http://localhost:9200/ Use credentials:
Username: elastic
Password: changeme
To check if Kibana is working use url: http://localhost:5601/ The screen underneath should show up. Underneath credentials can be used for first login.
Username: elastic
Password: changeme
