System Event Metrics Monitoring With Elk Stack: A Generic Solution Case Study

Abstract

Systems (Servers and Desktops) are essential lifelines for any organization that has automated its processes via a modern IT framework. The health of these systems is measured and derived via key factors (aka KPIs) such as uptime, threshold, CPU, and memory utilization. The volume of these metrics can become very large in a short amount of time, which can become a challenge in the retrieval, analysis, and reporting of the information derived from raw data. With the availability of generic software libraries for faster storage, retrieval, and presentation of the data in the ELK stack (Elastic Search, Logstash, and Kibana), the system metrics can be handled effectively and efficiently, which can then be used for faster reporting.