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What is a most benefit way to gather server hardware utilization, app logs, app jvm metrics, using Elastic-Stack?

Besides ELK standard goal for gathering application logs data i want to leverage this stack for advanced data collection such as JVM metrics (via JMX) and host's cpu/ram/disk/network utilization.

The most suitable one i thought is using metricbeat, but i doubt if metricbeat is enough for purposes described above.

Since i aiming at minimal stack of things to configure, will Metricbeat-Elasticsearch-Kibana be enough for collecting app logs,app jvm metrics,host's hardware utilization or there are some more suitable alternatives ?

UPDATE

Oh, i see now, that i need also filebeat besides metricbeat for gathering app logs. Is there any out of the box single solution that combines filebeat and metricbeat agents ?

Solution

  • Currently Filebeat and Metricbeat are separate binaries and you need to run both:

    • Filebeat to collect your logs (and potentially parse them with Elasticsearch Ingest node).
    • Metricbeat with the system module for cpu/ram/disk/network and we also have a JMX / Jolokia module for that functionality.