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Published inApr 2018
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Joseph Heck
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Joseph Heck

Joseph Heck has broad development and management experience across start-ups and large companies. He has architected, developed, and deployed a wide variety of solutions, ranging from mobile and desktop applications to cloud-based distributed systems. He builds and directs teams and mentors individuals to improve the way they build, validate, deploy, and run software. He also works extensively with and in open source, collaborating across many projects, including Kubernetes.
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Viewing logs using Kibana


For this book, we will explore how to use Kibana, taking advantage of it as an add-on to Minikube. After you have enabled it, and when the pods are fully available and reporting as Ready, you can access Kibana with this command:

minikube service kibana-logging -n kube-system

This will bring up a web page that is backed by the kibana-logging service. When it is first accessed, the web page will ask you to specify a default index, which is used by Elasticsearch to build its search indices:

Click on Create, taking the defaults that are provided. The default index pattern of logstash-* doesn't mean it has to come from logstash as a source, and the data that has already been sent to ElasticSearch from Fluentd will all be directly accessible.

One you have defined a default index, the next page that is displayed will show you all the fields that have been added into Elasticsearch as Fluentd has taken the data from the container logs and Kubernetes metadata:

You can browse through...

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Published in: Apr 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788834759

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Joseph Heck

Joseph Heck has broad development and management experience across start-ups and large companies. He has architected, developed, and deployed a wide variety of solutions, ranging from mobile and desktop applications to cloud-based distributed systems. He builds and directs teams and mentors individuals to improve the way they build, validate, deploy, and run software. He also works extensively with and in open source, collaborating across many projects, including Kubernetes.
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