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To the people suggesting ELK i just want to ask if you have actually used it in production? Like for real bughunting and investigating support requests? As muc
by espenwa 12y ago
To the people suggesting ELK i just want to ask if you have actually used it in production? Like for real bughunting and investigating support requests?
As much as we absolutely love ElasticSearch for our other indexing needs, we find it quite hard to get the LK-part of the stack to deliver as promised. Kibana may serve up nice graphs and charts, but when you need to drill down into a large amount of log data, we often feel like loosing both overview _and_ detail.
It might very well be that we are to blame, and that we are just doing it wrong (tm) - but I would love to hear how other people are leveraging the ELK stack in production environments?
- dreamdu5t 12y agoWe use ElasticSearch and Kibana in production for real bughunting and support requests. Logstash was too frustrating to deal with so we wrote our own simple wrapper around an open source ElasticSearch client library to log ourselves. We log every request (everything but the body usually) and response. If an error occurs, its logged as part of the request. We can practically replay actions taken by users and easily drill down to the exact requests pertaining to an error.