Getting Started – Installing the Elastic Stack
The Elastic Stack is a suite of components that allows you to ingest, store, search, analyze, and visualize your data from diverse sources. Previously known as the ELK Stack, today, it consists of four core components: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Elastic Agent, and Kibana.
Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine that can handle petabytes of unstructured data. Logstash, Beats, and Elastic Agent are data ingestion tools that can collect, transform, and load data from various sources into Elasticsearch. Kibana is a web-based interface that allows you to visualize and explore your data, as well as access various solutions built on top of the Elastic Stack. All integrate seamlessly so you can use your data for a variety of use cases such as search, analytics, observability, and security.
The Elastic Stack can be deployed on Elastic Cloud, as well as on-premises, and it can be deployed in a hybrid and orchestrated...
