ELK Stack preinstalled with Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana on a single instance, with nginx basic-auth in front of Kibana and per-instance credentials generated on first boot. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.
## ELK Stack by cloudimg
The ELK Stack is the leading open source observability platform. Elasticsearch is the distributed search and analytics engine, Logstash is the ingestion pipeline, and Kibana is the visual analytics interface. This Amazon Machine Image delivers the three components fully installed and configured as a single node deployment, so a complete log analytics platform is running within minutes of launch. The current release available is the latest stable 8.x line.
## Application Stack
Elasticsearch 8.x serves the search and storage backend on TCP 9200 with HTTP authentication enabled. Logstash 8.x runs an ingestion pipeline with a Beats input on TCP 5044 ready for Filebeat and Metricbeat agents. Kibana 8.x serves the web UI on TCP 5601, fronted by nginx on TCP 80 with HTTP basic authentication. Conservative JVM heaps are tuned for a 4 GB instance; customers raise them in the bundled jvm.options.d drop in files at launch.
## Secure First Boot
On the first boot of every instance a one shot service rotates the Elasticsearch elastic superuser password and generates a fresh nginx basic auth password, both unique to that instance, and writes them to a root only file. No shared or default credentials ship in the image.
## Ready To Use
The Elasticsearch single node cluster, the Logstash pipeline with the Beats input, the Kibana web UI, the nginx reverse proxy and all systemd units are configured. Browse to the instance address and sign in to start exploring indices, building dashboards and pointing Beats agents at the ingestion endpoint.
## cloudimg Support
cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this image, covering ELK deployment, ingestion pipeline authoring, index lifecycle management, dashboard authoring and performance tuning.