Laws.Africa Metrics Processing Stack

Configuration files for Laws.Africa ELK stack, using Elasticsearch (E) and Kibana (K). Adapted from https://github.com/elastic/stack-docker. An overview of the APM setup is available at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/get-started/current/overview.html

This sets up a collection of services to process metrics and display them in a Kibana dashboard.

This instance is not accessible from the outside world. Access to Kibana is through a secure nginx proxy.

Networking

This runs:

• Elasticsearch, listening on :9200
• APM server, listening on :8200
• Kibana, listening on :5601

The DNS entry elk.int.laws.africa should be set to the AWS-internal IP address of this instance.

AWS firewalls prevent any of these from being accessed from outside the network.

Installation

Install this package:

1. git clone https://github.com/laws-africa/elk-docker.git
2. cd elk-docker
3. Set the TAG variable to specify the ES version to use in .env: echo TAG=7.17.5 > .env
4. docker compose up -d