Awesome Monitoring Infrastructure Using the Elastic Stack

A3 | Thu 24 Jan | 10:40 a.m.–12:20 p.m.

Presented by

  • Mark Walkom
    @warkolm

    Mark started the first ANZ Elastic(search) users group in Sydney back in 2013 before joining the Elastic team, where he's currently a Community Engineer. He has spoken at LCA2015 and 2016 and was part of the core organising team for LCA2018. You can find him in Dubbo, but not at the zoo, on IRC, twitter or various Discourse instances, or trying to learn how to do electronics with RPIs and other weird parts to measure water tank levels.

  • Karen Carcamo

Abstract

IoT is great, until something breaks or you want to see how things perform at scale! To handle the volumes of data that any IoT project can generate, many developers default to Open Source tool chains to capture and analyse logs and metrics, and then pinpoint errors, faults or inefficiencies in their systems. One of the most widely used Open Source tools for this is the Elastic Stack: * Beats as a lightweight agent/forwarder of data. * Logstash for further parsing and enrichment. * Elasticsearch doing the hard work of storing and analysis. * Kibana for powerful visualisations. This workshop gives you an overview of the four technologies, how they work together and how, from microservice logs to IoT metrics to containerised apps, it has you covered. At the end of the workshop, you'll walk away with a set of connected Docker containers capturing logs and metrics from your laptop, a head start on dashboards for analysis, and ideas to deploy for your next project. Linux Australia: http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2019/a3/Thursday/Awesome_Monitoring_Infrastructure_Using_the_Elastic_Stack.webm YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVjK4I7JvvI