Key termsΒΆ
The table below lists the key terms that are used in this document.
Term | Definition |
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StackLight Collector | A smart monitoring agent running on every node which collects and processes the logs and the notifications of your OpenStack environment. |
Elasticsearch | An open-source (Apache-licensed) application based on the Lucene search engine that makes data-like log messages easy to explore and correlate. Elasticsearch is written in Java and uses Lucene internally for all of its indexing and searching, but it aims to make full-text search easy by hiding the complexities of Lucene behind a simple, coherent RESTful API. |
Kibana | An open-source (Apache-licensed) browser-based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is easy to setup and use. |