/vagrant-elk-box

Vagrant box to install elasticsearch, logstash and kibana

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This vagrant box installs elasticsearch 1.7, logstash 1.5.4 and kibana 4.1.1

Prerequisites

VirtualBox and Vagrant (minimum version 1.6) Other providers, like VMWare may work, not tested!

Up and SSH

To start the vagrant box run:

vagrant up

To log in to the machine run:

vagrant ssh

Elasticsearch will be available on the host machine at http://localhost:9200/

Kibana at http://localhost:5601/

Marvel elasticsearch plugin at http://localhost:9200/_plugin/marvel/

HQ elasticsearch plugin at http://localhost:9200/_plugin/HQ/

Vagrant commands

vagrant up # starts the machine
vagrant ssh # ssh to the machine
vagrant halt # shut down the machine
vagrant provision # applies the bash and puppet provisioning

##Elasticsearch Installed via debian package, started on boot. Controlled by

 sudo service elasticsearch-es-01

##Logstash Installed via debian package, started on boot. Controlled by

 sudo service logstash

If you want some sample Logstash data to play with, run

/opt/logstash/bin/logstash agent -f /vagrant/confs/logstash/logstash.conf

It will index into elasticsearch reading from example log file at /vagrant/example-logs/testlog

##Kibana Manual install, start up script provided in this repo. Controlled by

sudo service kibana

Configuration details

Elasticsearch and Logstash are installed using puppet modules. deb file for Kibana is downloaded and extracted, thanks to @UnrealQuester we even have init script for Kibana. Installation can be configured in the file /manifests/default.pp .For details on the elasticsearch puppet configuration, see https://forge.puppetlabs.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch Logstash puppet at https://forge.puppetlabs.com/elasticsearch/logstash

Elasticsearch is installed using cluster name 'vagrant_elasticsearch', instance name es-01, using 1 shard, 0 replicas.

Read (a bit) more: http://blog.comperiosearch.com/blog/2014/08/14/elk-one-vagrant-box/