How to setup ELK Stack with Spring Boot?

1. Download Elastic Search and unzip it
2. Start Elastic search with the following command and go to URL http://localhost:9200

$ bin/elasticsearch

3. Download LogStash and unzip it
4. Create logstash-elk.conf file on logstash home directory with the following content and change the log file location and index name based on your settings

input {
    file {
        path => "/Users/pjadda/ELK-Stack/logback/*.log"
        codec => "json"
        type => "logback"
    }
}
 
output {
    if [type]=="logback" {
         elasticsearch {
             hosts => [ "localhost:9200" ]
             index => "logstash"
        }
    }
}

5. Start the logstash with the command

$ bin/logstash -f logstash-elk.conf

6. Download Kibana then unzip it, run it with the following command

bin/kibana

7. Go to http://localhost:5601 to see Kibana UI
8. Go to Spring Boot application.yml file and add logging file location oproperties

# Logging
logging:
  file: /Users/pjadda/ELK-Stack/logback/springsecuritydata.log

9. Restart the Spring Boot application to capture logs in the newly created file springsecuritydata.log
10. Go to Kibana UI -> Management -> Create Index pattern -> Type index name (You should see the index name below)
11. Go to Kibana UI -> Dashboard to see Spring Boot log data, modify the filter to see data from past