Why Logstash Forms The Backbone Of The ELK stack

3 years ago logit.io

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Your business generates enormous quantities of data every single day. There’s just one problem: your data isn’t all in one place.

Elasticsearch can help you organise, parse and analyse data and Kibana 4 can help you visualise it (therefore allowing you to spot patterns and trends almost instantly).

Simply put, Logstash allows you to put the data it gathers from your various systems into a single common format.

By putting all your data into a shared format, Logstash makes it possible for you to interact with data from different systems simultaneously using Elasticsearch and Kibana.

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