Best Practices and Advanced Techniques

There are various best practices for getting the most from the ELK stack:

• Use log forwarding agents like Filebeat for log shipping. This decouples data pipelines.

• Enable TLS for encrypting connections between components. Restrict network access where possible.

• Use indexes wisely to segregate logs rather than sending all logs to one index.

• Monitor cluster health, shard volumes, JVM heap, and other metrics.

• For high availability, have multi-node Elasticsearch clusters with replication.

• Use Curator to optimize, back up, and delete old log indices.

• Ingest metrics into Elasticsearch for combined log analytics and monitoring. Visualize metrics time-series with Kibana.

• Build integrations with CI/CD pipelines, application monitoring, and ITSM tools using the ELK APIs.