About Me: Application Architect at Oildex, a Services of Transzap Inc,.

As we all have seen companies struggle with Searching, Sorting, aggregation, and performance with both Relational and No-SQL databases. Elasticsearch comes to rescue to us in those scenarios. ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana respectively) stack is what you might have heard around the industry for awhile. Elasticsearch is Heart of the Elastic Company’s product portfolio. One of the best thing for developers is Elastic Company has built amazing documentation anyone can easily digest.

Components of the Elastic Stack

Elasticsearch: Distributed, fast, Highly scalable Document data store

Kibana : Node.js based front-end application for visualization

Node.js based front-end application for visualization Logstash : A tool to Collect, Parse and Store data from and to a variety of source. In another way Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) fundamentals.

A tool to Collect, Parse and Store data from and to a variety of source. In another way Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) fundamentals. Beats : Lightweight utilities to read data from different sources in its predefined formats

Lightweight utilities to read data from different sources in its predefined formats ES-Hadoop

Plugins (X-Pack)

You have ability to create custom plugins as well.