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4 years ago

How Do I Remove Fields Using Logstash Filters?

Learn the best practices for removing and mutating fields in your logs and metrics using Logstash filters. When transporting data from a source to your Logit stacks using Logstash, there may be fields you do not wish to retain or see in Kibana. You can remove these using the mutate filter plugin.
4 years ago

Kibana ELK Cheatsheet

Kibana and Elastic Search combined are a very powerful combination but remembering the syntax, especially for more complex search scenarios can be difficult.
4 years ago

Disabling Searching of a Field In Elasticsearch Using Index Templates

Using mappings to define a field as non-searchable in Elasticsearch You may have noticed that Elasticsearch automatically tries to index all of the fields given to it. However, sometimes you will find that you want to just store a field without indexing it.
4 years ago

Hacks To Make ELK Centralised Logging Even More Efficient

Using ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) for centralised logging can bring many benefits to your business. Not only can it help with data visualisation, but it has enormous security advantages for your company too.
4 years ago

Common Mistakes of Log Analysis

With the role of IT becoming ever more essential to the daily operations of businesses, continuous security updates need to be undertaken to ensure that your organisation remains safe.
4 years ago

From Topbeat to Metricbeat

Ever since Elastic acquired Packetbeat in mid 2015, the beats community has grown at a pace. This momentum really began to accelerate when Elastic released libbeat, in late 2015, allowing the community to build it's own custom beats.
4 years ago

A Beginner's Guide to Logstash Filters

One of the most difficult aspects of triaging any business situation is to get a complete picture of what is happening. Often in the technology world the response to this is "log everything", on the basis that if we at least have an audit trail we can piece together what occurred.
4 years ago

How Small Businesses Can Benefit From Using ELK

Have you recently started a new small business? You may think that you don’t need to use centralised data-logging and analysis software like the ELK stack because your business isn’t large enough to generate large amounts of data. However, this isn’t necessarily true.
4 years ago

Deciding What Data To Store In The ELK Stack

In our previous blog entry, we gave you three tips for analysing your business’s data successfully. But what sort of data should you store for analysis in the first place? An important part of data analysis is recognising what types of data are relevant.

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