OS X isn't a fully supported OS, in that there are no pkg's for the 3 components, so you'll have to run the jar/bin's after grabbing the tgz packages from the site if you want to do it in your native environment. I'd recommend that you spin up a linux VM and try it in there as it's a simpler process.
Here's a few run throughs that a search turned up; https://en.opensuse.org/User:Tsu2/Install_and_Intro_Logstash-Elasticsearch-Kibana http://www.jaddog.org/2014/01/16/openstack-logstash-elasticsearch-kibana/ http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/free-alternative-to-splunk-by-fluentd http://www.vmdoh.com/blog/centralizing-logs-lumberjack-logstash-and-elasticsearch Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 14 February 2014 13:37, Phoenix Kiula <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >> 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. 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