What is this?

• Yet another AWS managed service
• Linked with LogStash and Kibana
• Logstash = storage; Kibana = dashboard

- Formerly known as “AWS ElasticSearch”

• The “E” in the ELK stack
• May also be referred to as AWS ES

What does it do?

• Log analytics; OLAP
• Time series analysis
• IT Ops Monitoring

Potential Inputs?

• LogFiles
• Messages
• Metrics
• Config Info
• Documents

Potential Outputs?

• Search
• Security/event mgmt
• App monitoring
• Infra monitoring

What’s logstash?

1. Ingest data from search
2. Transforms it
3. Dumps it to a “stash” (storage of choice)