Building a Cost-Effective ELK Stack for Centralized Logging

If your company has budget constraints, purchasing licensed products like Splunk for logging infrastructure may not be feasible. Fortunately, a powerful open-source alternative exists: ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana). ELK offers robust logging and visualization capabilities.

At a startup where I worked, cost minimization was a priority, so I implemented ELK for logging.