installation instruction for ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) on Windows

elastic.md

#Setup

• Download and install the JAVA JDK (JRE is not recommended for server installs)
• Download ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana from http://elastic.co
• Extract all to c:\elastic
• Set the following environment variables

LOGSTASH_HOME=c:\elastic\logstash\
PATH=%PATH%;c:\elastic\logstash
JAVA_HOME=<JAVA install path>

• Install Watcher for alerts

bin/plugin install elasticsearch/license/latest
bin/plugin install elasticsearch/watcher/latest

• Install the Timelion plugin c:\elastic\kibana.bat plugin -i kibana/timelion
• Install the Marvel plugin

c:\elastic\elasticsearch\bin\plugin.bat install license
c:\elastic\elasticsearch\bin\plugin.bat install marvel-agent
c:\elastic\kibana\bin\kibana.bat plugin -i elasticsearch/marvel/latest

• Install the Sense plugin

c:\elastic\kibana\bin\kibana.bat plugin -i elastic/sense

• Install Elasticsearch as Windows service

c:\elastic\elasticsearch\bin\service.bat install
c:\elastic\elasticsearch\bin\service.bat start

• Start elastic search
• Start kibana

10. Navigate to http://localhost:5341 for Kibana
11. Log data to Elasticsearch with serilog.sinks.elasticsearch nuget package or Nest nuget package
12. Set up visualizations in Kibana