Hi, Maybe graylog2 can interst you as a solution to store your data in ES, and therefore you have better searching of your data. Especially data coming form a webserver as I understand. You then can stil search or display data with Kibana.
A. Op maandag 22 december 2014 09:58:57 UTC+1 schreef stephanos: > > Thanks for the answer! > I think wasn't clear enough: all our log messages already have a > requestID. So if there *was* a grouping feature we'd apply it to that > field. > > I'm just wondering, how do you troubleshoot a issue of a user? When we see > a problem we look at all requests of that user in the GAE log viewer. Then > you quickly see requests that have non-200 status codes. Then we drill into > a request and see all logs of *that* request chronologically. While in > Kibana I can also look at all logs from a user ordered by time, but it's > not always completely clear which request log messages belong to. It's more > like one big stream. > > My point is, you should really try out the Google App Engine log viewer - > then you would know what you are missing! :) > > Stephan > > > On Monday, December 22, 2014 7:38:26 AM UTC+1, Magnus Bäck wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 10:03 CET, >> stephanos <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > we are using Google App Engine to host our SaaS app. Google offers a >> > nice log browser but it is way too sloooow. So one of my colleagues >> > suggested we pipe our logs to logstash and make them accessible via >> > Kibana. So far so good, we managed to set everything up. >> > But when Kibana was shown to the other team members they weren't >> > really excited. It was much faster, yes. It allowed to make better >> > queries, yes. BUT it broke the pattern they knew from the Google App >> > Engine log browser: >> > /some-request >> > log message 1 >> > log message 2 >> > /another-request >> > log message 3 >> > /yet-another-request >> > log message 4 >> > While Kibana works like this: >> > log message 1 /some-request >> > log message 2 /some-request >> > log message 3 /another-request >> > log message 4 /yet-another-request >> > So basically App Engine groups log messages by request. To get my >> > team on board, can we make Kibana do the same? >> >> Not out of the box, no. Kibana doesn't have any such contextual >> understanding of messages and currently can't be configured as >> such either. >> >> -- >> Magnus Bäck | Software Engineer, Development Tools >> [email protected] | Sony Mobile Communications >> > -- 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/cfe61a16-63ad-46a3-9747-2d4a73815627%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
