ansible-playbook-kibana

This repo is a set of playbooks which will deploy Logstash + ElasticSearch + Kibana all on a single server.

Setup

To get started you will need to setup ./vars/global_vars.yml. To do this I recommend just copying ./vars/global_vars.yml.sample and filling in the variables to whatever you want.

cp ./vars/global_vars.yml.sample ./vars/global_vars.yml
vi ./vars/global_vars.yml

You'll also need to setup ansible's inventory to define the central-logging host.

sudo vi /etc/ansible/hosts

and add

[central-logging]
foo.com

Unless your user account name is ubuntu with sudo access, you'll need to edit each playbook to change the username.

vi ./playbooks/*

Finally, nginx/kibana will be configured with a password to prevent random people from browsing your stuff. That's in the files/kibana/kibana.htpasswd.j2 file. You might want to change the default username/password there (kibana/kibana):

vi ./files/kibana/kibana.htpasswd.j2

(Google for htpasswd generators if you're unfamiliar with how to make an htpasswd file.)

Running Ansible

There are a few ways to use this set of playbooks -- you can either run the deployment of each service individually, or you can run them all in one go.

All Services

ansible-playbook playbooks/all.yml

Just ElasticSearch

ansible-playbook playbooks/elasticsearch.yml

Just LogStash

ansible-playbook playbooks/logstash.yml

Just Kibana3

ansible-playbook playbooks/kibana.yml