The story of how the ELK Stack becomes Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, is a pretty long story (https://www.elastic.co/about/history-of-elasticsearch). At Elastic{ON} 2015 in San Francisco, Elasticsearch Inc. was renamed Elastic and announced the next evolution of Elastic Stack. Elasticsearch will still play an important role, no matter what happens.
Elasticsearch architectural overview
Elastic Stack architecture
Elastic Stack is an end-to-end software stack for search and analysis solutions. It is designed to help users get data from any type of source in any format to allow for searching, analyzing, and visualizing data in real time. The full stack consists of the following:
- Beats master: A lightweight data conveyor...