Provision ekl and restore your dashboard using Ansible, Elasticdump, Nginx and Vagrant OpenStack cloud provider.

Centralized logging server with Logstash + logstash-forwarder, Elasticsearch, Kibana 4 behind Nginx with https and simple authentication.

This playbook is intended to be run against a vm that will be used as a central logger. After the setup of the server, clients need to be configured to redirect all logs to the central location.

Platform: Tested on **Ubuntu **

Prerequisites: The Vagrantfile assume you have credentials for an Openstack cloud provider. But it can be easily adapt using VirtualBox.

1. Install Ansible and Vagrant Openstack Provider.

2. Set your .bashrc with the needed Openstack variables OS_USERNAME, OS_PASSWORD, OS_TENANT, OS_FLOATING_IP etc.. used within the Vagrantfile. [List of Openstack public cloud providers] (https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/public-clouds/)

$`./deploy.sh (set the ip address of the vm and then execute vagrant up )

Take a coffee and after three minutes get your centralized logging server up and running!

Browse https://@IPOrFqdn and enter your login/mdp (see nginx-install.yml )!

Hereunder is what the Playbook will do:

1. Setup java8

2. Setup and configure Elasticsearch

3. Setup and configure Nginx with SSL and simple authentication

4. Setup and configure kibana 4

5. Setup and configure Logstash

6. Setup and configure Elasticdump : import/ export your visualizations and dashboards - see below.

7. Setup and configure logstash-forwarder for real time logging. Client and server on same vm.

Because Kibana 4, for now, does not allow you to save and load JSON visualizations and dashboard via its interface.

Export your visualizations/dashboards with the following command:

elasticdump \  
    --input=http://localhost:9200/.kibana  \
    --output=$ \
    --type=data \
    --searchBody='{"filter": { "or": [ {"type": {"value": "dashboard"}}, {"type" : {"value":"visualization"}}] }}' \
    > kibana-exported.json

[Elasticdump import/export] (http://air.ghost.io/kibana-4-export-and-import-visualizations-and-dashboards/)