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Murat Karslioglu
Murat Karslioglu
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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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Building centralized logging in Kubernetes using the EFK stack

As described in the the Accessing Kubernetes logs locally section, basic logging can be used to detect configuration problems, but for cluster-level logging, an external backend is required to store and query logs. A cluster-level logging stack can help you quickly sort through and analyze the high volume of production log data that's produced by your application in the Kubernetes cluster. One of the most popular centralized logging solutions in the Kubernetes ecosystem is the Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) stack.

In the ELK stack, Logstash is used as the log collector. Logstash uses slightly more memory than Fluent Bit, which is a low-footprint version of Fluentd. Therefore, in this recipe, we will use the Elasticsearch, Fluent-bit, and Kibana (EFK) stack. If you have an application that has Logstash dependencies, you can always replace Fluentd/Fluent Bit with Logstash.

In this section, we will learn how...

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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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