ELK Stack

12 engineers on Hacker News describe using ELK Stack first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.

40%trust
12first-hand users
11in production
endorse 0mixed 1regret 1uses, no opinion

“some things are not as good. But aside from the beefy machine we run ELK on it costs next to nothing, and is very reliable.”

mixed · production · 2 yr · singingfish · 2023-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we moved to ELK for metrics. Spent more time fixing up indexing and ingestion issues.”

regret · production · EdwardDiego · 2023-06-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I traded ELK for Clickhouse & we use Fluentbit to relay logs”

neutral · production · aguacaterojo · 2024-02-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“our own in-house udp logging to an ELK stack”

neutral · production · yashap · 2022-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I have Digital Ocean, I maintain the load balancer myself, the database myself, ELK myself”

neutral · production · laurent92 · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I was setting up ELK stack and I couldn't see how to integrate”

neutral · personal · dnilasor · 2021-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“builds do certificate management or ELK; both of which can take 15 to 20 minutes just on those resources alone.”

neutral · production · laumars · 2018-05-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use ELK for service specific metrics / centralized logs.”

neutral · production · aprdm · 2017-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“You can build all of what I mentioned with OSS like: Ansible (deployment) Jenkins (ci) ELK stack (metrics / logging) Zabbix (system metrics)”

neutral · production · aprdm · 2017-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We have on-metal infrastructure with tons of spare capacity that would probably run us about $2.5k/mo on AWS”

neutral · production · busterarm · 2017-07-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“recently switched it for an ELK stack (hosted by logit.io).”

neutral · production · arikfr · 2016-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The run elk stack to view parse logs.”

neutral · production · whitenoice · 2015-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?