ES is free as it's open source. You might want to take a look here http://logstash.net/docs/1.3.3/learn as it has a good getting started guide.
Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 14 February 2014 12:52, Phoenix Kiula <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. I'm somewhat familiar with Splunk, because our company invested in it. > Now it's proving to be expensive so we're looking for alternatives. (It's a > super tool though) > > ElasticSearch was recommended on Quora. But downloading and trying to > install it is hideous. This seems for tech nerds. Or am I missing > something? I'm on a Mac OSX and want to try it out. The Splunk or SumoLogic > installs were 10 seconds and I was up and running. > > Could someone please point me to a simple guide to: > > 1. Install the whole thing: including "LogStash" and "Kibana", because > just searching is not what I wish to do, I want to make sense of the data > and therefore dashboarding is important. I couldn't find a simple step by > step tutorial or guide on the website to install this whole stack. Google > turns up stuff like this -- > http://red-badger.com/blog/2013/11/08/getting-started-with-elasticsearch/ -- > which is ridiculously dysfunctional. (And I don't want to install "brew" > just to install simple stuff.) > > 2. Secondly, once installed, I'd like to know how to simply get the data > into the index from: > a) a MySQL database > b) a folder with XML files...I want to slurp all the files into the > index, and then incrementally only get new files in the future > c) a folder with text log files...and same incremental auto-pickup as > (b) above > > Don't seem to find a simple non-geeky guide to do this. I'm a programmer > in PHP and web technologies (JS etc), and manage my own dedicated Linux > hosting, so not averse to code or commands, but want to find some coherent > and simple guide. > > 3. Thirdly, the demo.kibana.org is hideous. It looks like the best way to > UN-sell this technology. Is there a better place I could see actual Kibana > in use, you know, with a proper dashboard that doesn't look like a screen > from The Matrix in dark black? I'm looking for a business dashboard with > proper dropdown based filters etc. And the ability perhaps to use third > party libraries such as D3 JS. > > Finally, where's the pricing info? Is ElasticSearch completely free? > There's no pricing info anywhere, only the cost of helping out. Is this why > the documentation etc is so poor so that they can charge for helping? > > Many thanks for any pointers. I really want to give this a shot. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/10b30c8e-2554-437d-a48c-39ed38b4f0d3%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624Z6zsayrKYtgEVWS8MKqDo9gNy20MNxQ77%3Dkq9duzVeqw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
