A tool to build a dynamic database of your datacenter assets

This post is Part 3 of a 4-part series about Kubernetes monitoring. Part 1 discusses how Kubernetes changes your monitoring strategies, Part 2 explores Kubernetes metrics and events you should monitor, this post covers the different ways to collect that data, and Part 4 details how to monitor Kubernetes performance with Datadog.

logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). Speaking of searching, logstash comes with a web interface for searching and drilling into all of your logs.

It is fully free and fully open source. The license is Apache 2.0, meaning you are pretty much free to use it however you want in whatever way.

logstash is now a part of the Elasticsearch family! This allows us to build better software much faster as well as offering production support