

Today we will cover a tutorial on how to install and configure the ELK Stack on Ubuntu 16.04. ELK stands for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana and is a robust open source solution for searching, analyzing and visualizing data. Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine based on Lucene, Logstash is a data processing pipeline for managing events and logs and Kibana is a web application for visualizing data in Elasticsearch. This ELK Stack tutorial should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but it was tested and written for an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. Installing ELK Stack on Ubuntu 16.04 is an easy task, just follow the steps below, and you should have it installed in less than 15 minutes.






