Four Golden Signals

• Refer Here
• Four Golden signals
  • Latency
  • Traffic
  • Errors
  • Saturation

Log Monitoring Contd.

• As of now we know how to send logs or parsed logs to elastic search (Logstash to Elastic Search)
• Architecture
  
  
• Elastic cloud account Refer Here
  
  
  
• Check the elastic endpoint
  

Beats

• The beats is a lightweight framework that was created to ship metrics or logs to elastic stack
• Refer Here for official page
• The shippers available are
  • file beat: send files from the nodes to elastic search
  • metric beats: sends metrics (cpu, memory, storage etc) to elastic search
  • packet beat: send network traffic to elastic search
  • winlog beat: sends windows event logs to elastic search
  • Heart beat: sends the uptime to elastic search

Lets create a server with apache and send metrics to elastic search

• In this case initially lets send basic system info to elastic search.
• Install apache server
  
• Metric beat:
  • Refer Here for the offical docs
  • modules supported by metric beat Refer Here
• Installing metric beat Refer Here.
  • apt based installation: Refer Here
• Get the cloud id from elastic search and enter cloud id and cloud auth in metricbeat.yml
  
• Now enable necessary modules
  
• Configure metric beat Refer Here