
However, currently the messages are just blocks of unstructured text which makes further filtering and grouping harder. If you have many applications this is already beneficial since you can check all the logs in one place. Once it’s in place, you can explore the logs in the Logs or in the Discovery panel. If the logs were made it to Elasticsearch, you should see a Create index pattern button. To create one, go to Stack Management > Index patterns.

An index pattern selects the data to use and allows to define properties of the fields. Kibana requires index patterns to access the Elasticsearch data. With this setup log entries of the application are pushed directly to Elasticsearch.Īfter executing the command above the startup logs should be already visible in Kibana. Create a Spring Boot applicationįor this demonstration I’ll use a Gradle-based Spring Boot Web application that is only capable of serving a hello world message on while creating a log entry:ĭocker run -rm -log-driver=elastic/elastic-logging-plugin:7.12.0 \ There’s not much to see because we did not push any logs to it yet.
#Elastic filebeats container driver
Version : ' 3' services : elasticsearch : image : /elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.12.0 container_name : elasticsearch environment : - discovery.type=single-node - mory_lock=true - " ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m" - ELASTIC_PASSWORD=changeme - =true volumes : - elasticsearch-data:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data ports : - 9200:9200 networks : - elastic kibana : image : /kibana/kibana:7.12.0 container_name : kibana environment : - ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME=elastic - ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=changeme - ELASTICSEARCH_URL= - ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS= ports : - 5601:5601 depends_on : - elasticsearch networks : - elastic volumes : elasticsearch-data : driver : local networks : elastic : driver : bridgeĪfter the services are started with docker-compose up, the Kibana UI can be accessed at with the credentials defined in the compose file.
