Is it possible to draw more than just logs on the Elasticsearch + Logstahs + Kibana stack?

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Is it possible, based on this stack, to visualize data not only from the logs, say, also any other information, for example, sales statistics (or anything else)? Now on the backend this is done through highchart, it seems that you don’t want to produce a vegetable garden from technologies. In fact, it seems to me that it is possible to give any statistics to elasticsearch, and not just logs? Has anyone tried it? Share your experience, please.

Answer 1

Good day,
yes you can. If you look at the Beats line, then through it the ability to add metric data is implemented.
Plus a rich arsenal of plugins for LS: netflow, sflow, graphite.
We use the visualization of netflow statistics and this is enough.
But for data visualization, from different systems, for internal and external customers, a bunch of Graphite => Grafana <= ES, Zabbix => Grafana is used.
Much in choosing a tool depends on the technical specification. What do you want to see and what kind of mathematical or statistical processing should the data go through.