matiasfrndz / vagrant-elastic-stack

Giving the Elastic Stack a try in Vagrant

Elastic Stack in Vagrant

This repository will install the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, and Kibana) with a simple vagrant up by using Vagrant's Ansible provisioner. All you need is a working Vagrant installation 1.8.3+ and 2.5GB of RAM.

Configure the Elastic Stack with Ansible

With the Ansible playbooks in the /elastic-stack/ folder you can configure the whole system step by step. Just run them in the given order inside the Vagrant box:

> vagrant ssh
$ ansible-playbook /elastic-stack/1_configure-elasticsearch.yml
$ ansible-playbook /elastic-stack/2_configure-kibana.yml
$ ansible-playbook /elastic-stack/3_configure-logstash.yml
$ ansible-playbook /elastic-stack/4_configure-filebeat.yml
$ ansible-playbook /elastic-stack/4_configure-metricbeat.yml
$ ansible-playbook /elastic-stack/4_configure-packetbeat.yml
$ ansible-playbook /elastic-stack/5_configure-dashboards.yml
$ ansible-playbook /elastic-stack/6_add-plugins.yml

Or if you are in a hurry, run all playbooks with /elastic-stack/all.sh at once.

Configure Kibana

Access Kibana at http://localhost:8080/app/kibana with the credentials admin and admin. You will be prompted to select a default index — select any, for example the filebeat-* index.

Then you can search the logs (Discover), add pre-built or custom visualizations (Visualize), and put together a custom Dashboard.

Generate test data

You can use /opt/injector-5.0.jar to generate test data in the person index. To generate 100,000 documents in batches of 1,000 run the following command:

$ java -jar /opt/injector-5.0.jar 100000 1000