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ELK- Elastic Logstash Kibana

Elastic Search is a robust search and analytics tool that stores data in a document oriented data store. It is open source, meaning you can download, use and modify the program free of charge. The most popular usage of ElasticSearch today is Log Management. Similar products in the market today are Splunk and Solr. Splunk is the enterprise software, and expansive.  Elastic Search is built on top of high performance open source search engine Apache Lucene. The documented oriented storage differs sharply from traditional table oriented RDBMS (Such as Oracle, MS SQL Server). With document oriented data storage, data is stored as structured JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) documents. Every field is indexed by default. This is why the search speed is incredible.  The architecture of Elastic Search favors distribution, meaning you can scale your Elastic Search infrastructure massively and seamlessly. The infrastructure is resilient for failures – it automatically relocates and balances