Some time ago I was asked for help to develop a “simple and quick” Python script to monitor the status of a Linux service. They were in the middle of a deployment and they needed something fast. They added, keep the result in a JSON file with the date, serve the directory with HTTP for quick view, and finally post it to ELK for graphics. Ok, this looks simple part by part, but the sum ends up in a very complete solution at the same time! ...
Now we are talking about Infrastructure Analytics. Elastic is a tool that can ingest any (and I mean it, any!) kind of information from multiple sources, correlate them all together, and create some beautiful and fully customizable dashboards. To give you an idea of what you can achieve, I will show a couple of use cases that I discovered while exploring the tool. Automation chatbots code insights While doing integration tests of my chatbot automation project and going through logs manually, I found that it just didn’t scale and was inefficient in time and precision. ...