Integrating Elasticsearch and Logstash with NetApp Harvest and Grafana : Part 2

Setting Up Your SYSLOG Server

Install Elasticsearch and Logstash

Since this blog series is about how to integrate ES and LS with NetApp and the NAbox,  I won't take the time to explain the installation of each.  Installation of both is fairly easy and there are many sites and blogs that explain it in detail.  I'll just add a few links and notes below that I found very helpful.

Elasticsearch Install Link                    Logstash Install Link

Some basic info about my instance:
OS:  Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
ES version 2.4.2
LS version  2.4.1
Installing Elasticsearch as a single node on the server
Elasticsearch and Logstash require java.  Refer to the install links above to verify supported versions.
Clustered DataOntap (CDOT) 8.2.4 and 8.3.1

Configure Elasticsearch

Integrating Elasticsearch and Logstash with NetApp Harvest and Grafana : Part 1

Digging even deeper...

Background

I've been using a great tool called NetApp Harvest for a few years now.  If you are familiar with Harvest and how it integrates with Grafana and Graphite then you know what this tool can provide you and/or your customers.  A colleague of mine at NetApp , Chris Madden (@dutchiechris on twitter) is the author and maintainer of NetApp Harvest and you can grab all the info you need on it from his blog called "it all begins with data".  One of the great things about Harvest is that it comes with  a ton of dashboards ready to install on Grafana!  Another colleague of mine, Yann Bizeul (@ybontap on twitter) built an "all-in-one" OVA template called the NAbox (formerly called ADVA).  The NAbox makes deploying Harvest/Grafana/Graphite very easy.  In minutes you can get it up and running and see beautiful metrics pouring out from your NetApp systems.  All the information you need to deploy this wonderful tool is located here https://nabox.tynsoe.org/.

NetApp Dashboard: Cluster Group