Getting started with logging with the ELK Stack: A primer for beginners

Luca Wintergerst

Product Marketing Director

Elastic

For many organizations, centralizing and storing logs to perform log analytics is the first step in the path to observability – even if they don't realize that they've embarked on a journey.

In this virtual event we'll go over the benefits of a log management solution, challenges you'll likely encounter along the way, and some tips to help you avoid the pitfalls that often appear when starting up or trying to improve your log aggregation.

Highlights include:

• Basic concepts for log analytics
• Benefits of structured vs unstructured logs, and coping with the latter
• The impact of cloud-native designs on log aggregation
• The importance of metadata in your logs
• A full demo for ingesting and evaluating logs with Elastic Observability

Additional Resources:

• Observability home page
• Log Monitoring with Elastic Observability
• Elastic integrations and data sources
• Try Elastic Cloud for free
• Intro to Observability