Preslav Mihaylov.

Software Engineer, Consultant, Speaker & Technical Trainer

Tag: monitoring

How to create a Logging Dashboard with Kibana

In Golang, MicroservicesTags golang, kibana, logging, monitoringLeave a comment

Preslav Mihaylov

This article is part of the series Integrating your Go service with ELK

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a dashboard for your application's structured logs in Kibana.

This is a follow-up to this article, which covers how to instrument your Go application \w structured logging for use by Kibana (in this tutorial).

We'll use Kibana v7.6 but any version you're using should work. It's just that your UI might look a bit different & you'll have to adjust.

Let's jump straight in! We'll stick to simple panels, which suite most of the use-cases you'd need.

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Getting The Most Out of Your Logs with ELK

In MicroservicesTags elasticsearch, elk, kibana, logging, monitoring, structured loggingLeave a comment

Preslav Mihaylov

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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