Tackling the challenges in onboarding new data sources
Elastic Stack makes it possible to leverage value and insight from large amounts of data, collected from multiple points in your technology stack. The benefit of collecting from multiple layers in your stack is the ability to then stitch events together and correlate activity across the different components during analysis.
However, it is not a trivial task to identify, ingest, and parse all the available and usable data sources, especially in large and complex environments. Some common challenges include the following:
- Getting access to data sources, especially if the system in question is managed by a different team
- Extracting, parsing, and making sense of data sources effectively so that the logs that are collected are useful during analysis
- Investing in the development of custom instrumentation or collection modules for bespoke sources
- Managing and dealing with large data volumes (and the associated costs...
