Centralized Logging with ELK Stack

In a microservices world, applications don't run as one big piece. Instead, they're many small, independent services.

This means logs are scattered across many servers and containers. Finding issues becomes a huge challenge without a central place to view them all.

• Debugging: Hard to trace requests across services.
• Monitoring: Difficult to spot trends or errors.
• Maintenance: Manually checking logs is time-consuming.

The ELK Stack is a popular solution for centralized logging. It's a powerful collection of three open-source tools:

• Elasticsearch: Stores and indexes logs.
• Logstash: Processes and transforms logs.
• Kibana: Visualizes and analyzes logs.

Together, they create a robust pipeline for all your application logs.