Summary

In this chapter, we have covered an efficient way of centralizing log files generated by different OpenStack components. Because your private cloud environment is most likely growing, this will add more load and will need more monitoring effort to piece events together. The chapter has demonstrated how to set up an ELK stack and integrate it into your existing OpenStack cluster. Logs provide valuable information on how an OpenStack setup is behaving and gives a great insight on debugging possible issues, analyzing performance degradation per OpenStack service, and helps to raise flags when a security threat comes along. The ELK platform provides a great and complete log analytics solution that empowers our OpenStack journey by addressing the challenges of dealing with an immense number of log entries and events. We have learned how to build a standard ELK pipeline ending up with a sophisticated solution...