Integrating MuleSoft with the Elastic Stack (ELK – Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) involves a process where MuleSoft applications send their logs or data to Elasticsearch via Logstash, and then the data is visualized using Kibana.
ELK is the acronym for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
ELK stack gives you the ability to aggregate logs from all your systems and applications, analyze these logs, and create visualizations for application and infrastructure monitoring, faster troubleshooting, security analytics, and more.
Here’s a step-by-step guide to achieving this integration, including code examples:
1. Overview of ELK Stack Components
- Elasticsearch: is a distributed search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene.
- Logstash: is an open-source server-side data ingestion tool that allows you to collect data from a variety of sources, transform it, and send it to your desired destination like to a “stash” like Elasticsearch.
- Kibana: is a data visualization and exploration tool that works on top of Elasticsearch and is used for log and time-series analytics, application monitoring, and operational intelligence use cases.
