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@dafyre said:

I wouldn't mind seeing a good guide for ELK. I've thought about setting one up, but never had the resoures in my home lab until recently.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-4-on-centos-7

That's the one I used.

If you want to cheat, they have a one click installer

scottalanmiller

Definitely no need to build your own from scratch. They have they prebuilt for you.

dafyre

I tried to Spin it up on CentOS7 at home last night... I got it almost working, but I'm still missing something aparently...

Where's that one-click installer at? I didn't see it anywhere...

scottalanmiller

When you go to build a new machine on Digital Ocean, you select ELK as the VM type.

scottalanmiller

Here you go...

scottalanmiller

Calling it a "one click installer" is very confusing. It's nothing like that. It's a pre-built image.

dafyre

@scottalanmiller Ah, this would be my problem... I'm trying to build it myself, lol. Once I can deploy it by hand, then I'd look at a DO droplet or the like.

Learn it the hard way first, that way when you break it from the one-click-installer, you can at least go digging to figure out why it broke.

dafyre

So I got my own ELK stack installed in my meager office lab... It wasn't too teribly bad... I enjoy using the most recent packages when I (attempt) to build something, so I used the latest & greatest betas out for Logstash and Elastic. A few quick googles and I was good. 8-)

Now to replicate this on my home server which arguably sees more traffic than my office test setup, lol.

Joy

Just finished installing Mediawiki on Centos

http://104.167.112.241/index.php/Talk:Main_Page

Joy

I want to install next is Logging Server

mlnews

@Joy said:

I want to install next is Logging Server

Any particular kind?

Joy

@mlnews said:

@Joy said:

I want to install next is Logging Server

Any particular kind?

I was reading this one, trying to figure out

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-4-on-centos-7

scottalanmiller

ELK is definitely the way to go. So powerful!

dafyre

That DO article left out some steps about allowing Firewall rules for some of the ports, I think. I've bee na few days since I've looked at it... I have noticed that I need to set the Kiban4 and logstash processes to restart once a day or the whole thing stops.

Joy

@scottalanmiller said:

ELK is definitely the way to go. So powerful!

I'm stuck in here :

create and edit a new yum repository file for Elasticsearch:

sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo

Add the following repository configuration:
/etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo

**** [elasticsearch-1.4]
name=Elasticsearch repository for 1.4.x packages
baseurl=http://packages.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/1.4/centos
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1****

scottalanmiller

You should post in a new thread as this is a fresh question.

Joy

@scottalanmiller said:

You should post in a new thread as this is a fresh question.

Done
http://mangolassi.it/topic/6422/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-4-on-centos-7

scottalanmiller

Thanks.

jospoortvliet

I really like the Digital Ocean tutorial series they did a while ago, like installing MediaWiki. Creating something which you can use at home also helps make projects like these a bit more personal - and thus interesting. Build your own media server (samba, ftp or a bit more advanced like ownCloud). Just make sure it stays a challenge: buy some Raspberry Pi's or Zero's and cluster a web app with MySQL, Redis and stuff like that...

Reid Cooper

Digital Ocean has really made a name for themselves making incredible documentation. In the past year they've become really famous for it. Very well written, well maintained, tested. It's probably their best marketing tool.