In this blog post, Christoffer Vig outlines the process of using Logstash and Kibana with the Elasticsearch cloud service, formerly known as Found, to analyze weblogs. The article explains the initial setup of Logstash and Kibana on a Windows laptop, emphasizing the importance of using SSL connections for securing data transfer between the local machine and the cloud-hosted Elasticsearch cluster. It provides step-by-step instructions on creating an Elasticsearch cluster, configuring Logstash to connect with the cluster, and setting up Kibana to visualize data. The post highlights security measures, such as access control lists and user authentication, to protect the Elasticsearch cluster from unauthorized access. The article concludes with a preview of the next installment, which will cover the ingestion of IIS log files into Elasticsearch and the visualization of web traffic data using Kibana.