Working with application logs

A small tutorial to work with application logs and analyze them with Elastic and Kibana. In a microservices application architecture, it is important to analyze the logs to understand the health of the application. We can extract several stats from the logs when a log is a strucApplication logs can be generated in multiple ways. They can be either simple logs or print to console (with no time stamps). Collecting logs Log files - Most applications default behaviour is to write the logs on the file system.