Though we're focused more on server setup procedure in this document, I will still give a very brief explanation in laymen terms for ELK. To those who are starting new in this stack, must have already heard of MVC (Model View Controller), so take it like this:
- Model
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Elasticsearch (for Storage, Indexing & Search) - View
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Kibana (for DataViz & G-Man, yeah the one in half life 😏) - Controller
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Logstash (For Logs & Filtering)
Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.
- Follow standard conventions.
- Keep it simple stupid. Simpler is always better. Reduce complexity as much as possible.
- Boy scout rule. Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
- Always find root cause. Always look for the root cause of a problem.