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This article is part of the series Integrating your Go service with ELK
In my last post, I shared how much value the ELK stack could bring for your application in terms of the monitoring capabilities it gives you.
In this post, I will walk you through how to integrate your Go application with ELK, what are the different parts of ELK, how they work and how to create a basic configuration for them.
Let's jump straight in, shall we?
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This article is part of the series Integrating your Go service with ELK
When you start developing your application, you typically instrument it with some logging to be able to debug problems later.
Some skip it in the development phase, but once the application hits production, then it is crucial to have some logging.
After all, once users complain that something isn't working, how would you be able to find the root-cause?
And although logging proves to be useful, many companies don't really capitalise on its potential as they're still clinging to the classic way of writing freestyle logs and grep-ing them on their prod machines afterwards.
However, there is so much more potential that logging holds for monitoring our production systems. In this article, I will show you how to get the maximum value from your logs using the ELK stack.
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