Spring boot centralized logging ELK

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I have 4-5 micro services which are all accessible through gateway service. I want to centralize the logging using elastic search, log stash and kibana. I have gone through few materials online and they write the logs to same file from every micro services (which I think is good for learning but bad idea for production code). What is the good approach here. Please suggest.

I have found this useful link. But not able to figure out how log stash is reading from a single port to push the logs to elastic search. I have commented my queries there as well.

Any suggestions or study materials would be appreciated. I am a newbie to ELK.

Does this answer your question? [Send spring boot logs directly to logstash with no file](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57399354/send-spring-boot-logs-directly-to-logstash-with-no-file) — dbaltor, Jul 14 '20 at 14:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '20 at 11:56

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One of ways -it using Sleuth - https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-sleuth By adding his dependency to all services will concentrate all logs together

answered Jun 21 '20 at 11:56

Leon Kofman

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 14 '20 at 14:10

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Take a look on https://github.com/logstash/logstash-logback-encoder .

You can send the logs directly over TCP from the microservice to logstash. I'm testing this at the moment too.

answered Jul 14 '20 at 14:10

rafcio

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@TonyBrand I answered your question. Hope it helps. – rafcio Apr 16 '22 at 08:12

Spring boot centralized logging ELK

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