Thank you for this. But that page, including the getting started guide, is nowhere close to what I requested. I need to install ElasticSearch, then LogStash and Kibana -- which I understand is the set of tools I need to get anywhere close to Splunk or SumoLogic. Right? Where's the guide to install all of them on Mac OSX and start playing around with "localhost", and coding in PHP?
Apologies if this sounds onerous, but my request is fairly simple and straightforward even for an open source tool. There's a lot of effort on the ES website to showcase case studies and whatnot. A bit of effort in helping people actually get started without a PhD would be great too! Maybe I'm just missing something. Thanks On Friday, February 14, 2014 10:02:24 AM UTC+8, Mark Walkom wrote: > > ES is free as it's open source. > You might want to take a look here http://logstash.net/docs/1.3.3/learnas it > has a good getting started guide. > > Regards, > Mark Walkom > > Infrastructure Engineer > Campaign Monitor > email: [email protected] <javascript:> > web: www.campaignmonitor.com > > > On 14 February 2014 12:52, Phoenix Kiula <[email protected]<javascript:> > > 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] <javascript:>. >> 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/d014a3f4-e3d3-4960-9242-b935eaaedf8e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
