A comprehensive log management and analysis strategy are mission critical, enabling organisations to understand the relationship between operational, security and change management events and maintain a comprehensive understanding of their infrastructure. Log files from web servers, applications and operating systems also provide valuable data, though in different formats and in a random and distributed fashion. To effectively consolidate, manage and analyse these different logs, a centralised logging solution is needed.

Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of solving a growing number of use cases.