Company
Date Published
Author
Daniel Berman
Word count
1193
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The blog post, a continuation in a series about Puppet server logging with the ELK Stack, explores advanced techniques for analyzing and visualizing Puppet logs using Kibana. It emphasizes the importance of understanding log data by querying different fields indexed by Elasticsearch and differentiating between Puppet server and access logs. The article guides readers on creating visualizations in Kibana to monitor server health and provides examples such as analyzing average service time per agent and response codes using line and bar chart visualizations. It also discusses setting up query-based alerts to proactively manage and respond to errors in real-time, despite the lack of built-in alerting in the open-source ELK Stack. The post concludes by highlighting the benefits of integrating Puppet logs with a centralized system for effective monitoring and logging, encouraging readers to refer to part one for foundational setup instructions.