ELK STACK CHEAT SHEET

Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
v1.0
Elasticsearch Basics
  • IndexDatabase equivalent
  • DocumentRow equivalent
  • FieldColumn equivalent
  • MappingSchema definition
  • Default: :9200HTTP API port
Logstash Pipeline
  • input { }Data sources
  • filter { }Processing
  • output { }Destinations
  • Default: :5044Beats input port
Kibana Features
  • DiscoverLog exploration
  • DashboardVisualizations
  • Dev ToolsQuery console
  • AlertingAlert rules
  • Default: :5601Web UI port
Beats Family
  • FilebeatLog files
  • MetricbeatSystem metrics
  • PacketbeatNetwork data
  • HeartbeatUptime monitoring
  • AuditbeatAudit data
Elasticsearch API - Index Operations
# Create index PUT /my-index # Index a document POST /my-index/_doc { "message": "Hello World", "@timestamp": "2024-01-15T10:00:00Z" } # Get document GET /my-index/_doc/1 # Delete index DELETE /my-index
Search Queries
# Match query (full-text search) GET /logs/_search { "query": { "match": { "message": "error" } } } # Bool query (AND/OR) { "query": { "bool": { "must": [{ "match": { "status": "error" }}], "filter": [{ "range": { "@timestamp": { "gte": "now-1h" }}}] } } }
Query Types
  • matchFull-text search
  • termExact match
  • rangeRange filter
  • boolCombine queries
  • wildcardPattern match
  • existsField exists
Aggregations
  • termsGroup by field
  • date_histogramTime buckets
  • avg/sum/min/maxMetrics
  • cardinalityUnique count
  • percentilesPercentile stats
Logstash Pipeline Example
input { beats { port => 5044 } } filter { grok { match => { "message" => "%{COMBINEDAPACHELOG}" } } date { match => [ "timestamp", "dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss Z" ] } } output { elasticsearch { hosts => ["localhost:9200"] index => "logs-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}" } }
KQL (Kibana Query)
# Field equals value status: "error" # AND / OR status: error and host: server1 # Wildcard message: *timeout* # Range response_time >= 500
Cluster Health
# Cluster health GET /_cluster/health # Node stats GET /_nodes/stats # Index stats GET /my-index/_stats # Cat APIs GET /_cat/indices?v GET /_cat/shards?v

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