Spring-ELK Example

Log Management (ELK) for Spring Boot application

This simple example demonstrates how easy you can enable quite powerful and advanced log management in to your Spring Boot application

ELK Stack

1. Elastics Search is a distributed, JSON-based search and analytics engine designed for horizontal scalability, maximum reliability, and easy management.
2. Logstash is a dynamic data collection pipeline with an extensible plugin ecosystem and strong Elasticsearch synergy.
3. Kibana gives the visualization of data through a UI.

ELK Stack Architecture

ELK Configuration

download logstash version : 6.2.2 create a new file logstash-config.conf and put :

input {
  file {
    path => "/PATH TO PROJECT/elk-example-spring-boot/elk-example.log.json"
    start_position => "beginning"
    sincedb_path => "/dev/null"
    stat_interval => 1
    codec =>   json {
      charset => "UTF-8"
    }
  }
}


output {
   elasticsearch {
     hosts => "http://localhost:9200"
     index => "elk_example"
     document_type => "anywhere"
  }
  stdout { codec => rubydebug }
}

run bin/logstash -f logstash-simple.conf

download elasticsearch version : 6.2.2 and run it : ./elasticsearch

donwload kibana version : 6.2.2 and run it : ./kibana

now we can search our message :