{"id":112,"date":"2018-07-10T06:41:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T01:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdapplabs.com\/blog-01\/?p=112"},"modified":"2018-07-11T00:44:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T19:14:09","slug":"how-to-setup-elk-on-top-of-a-vm-with-latest-ubuntu-lts-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nerdapplabs.com\/blog\/how-to-setup-elk-on-top-of-a-vm-with-latest-ubuntu-lts-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to setup ELK stack with latest ubuntu LTS 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ELK Stack is a collection of three open-source products \u2014 Elasticsearch<\/a>, Logstash<\/a>, and Kibana<\/a> \u2014 all developed, managed and maintained by Elastic<\/a>.
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\nElasticsearch<\/strong><\/u> – Elasticsearch is a NoSQL database that is based on the Lucene search engine. Use for Indexing and storage.\u00a0Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine, it centrally stores your data.
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\nLogstash<\/strong><\/u> – Logstash is a log pipeline tool that accepts inputs from various sources, executes different transformations, and exports the data to various targets.Use for Data Aggregation and Processing.
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\nKibana<\/strong><\/u> – Kibana is a visualization layer that works on top of Elasticsearch.
\nIt is a browser-based user interface (UI) used to search, analyze and visualise the data stored in elasticsearch indices.
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Here are the steps to install ELK on Ubuntu LTS 18.04<\/b><\/h3>\n

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Step 1: Install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (you can create a VM using VirtualBox)<\/h4>\n

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Step 2: Install Java<\/h4>\n

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