Tag Archives: logging

Automate Deployment of the ELK/EFK Stack with Ansible

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Will Foster

I recently needed to completely automate deploying a full ELK/EFK stack and clients and didn’t find anything that suited my needs so I wrote the playbooks for this in Ansible. This was my first real foray into automation with Ansible, … Continue reading →

Posted in open source, sysadmin | Tagged ansible, automation, devops, elasticsearch, elk, kibana, linux, logging, logstash, sysadmin | 24 Comments

How to Manually Create/Tune an Elasticsearch Index

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Will Foster

The ELK stack provides a very powerful set of tools that allow administrators and developers unfettered access and customizable log aggregation across any manner of server, application or device. Recently I needed to stand up a new ELK stack on … Continue reading →