Category: Business, Database, Data

July 2nd 2015ELK 2 min read Combining three powerful open-source data-monitoring products, Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana, ELK stack is the leading solution for those who need to track, store, monitor and analyse data in real-time.

Perhaps no organisation is at the forefront of more pioneering technology than America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Its Jet Propulsion Lab uses Elasticsearch's powerful data monitoring abilities to monitor metrics captured by the Mars Curiosity rover, which roams the surface of the red planet to search for signs of life. Goldman Sachs The multinational investment banking firm incorporates ELK stack into a system that churns over a gigantic five terabytes of log data per day, which is then processed by a series of Logstash projects, indexed by Elasticsearch and analysed via a Kibana-based interface.

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