Please, I'd like to forward you to the nice Elasticsearch company to ask them if they can provide the service you request, for example, something like a native Mac OS X dmg package of the ELK stack, with OOTB experience.
I'm quite sure they have something like this in the pipeline, because expectations are getting higher and higher. The community mailinglist can help if you have questions about Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is not a Splunk replacement but a search engine that can power such platforms. Many apps can be added to ES, and Splunk-like apps are just one possibility. Don't be annoyed because you just tried to install the backbone of a whole platform. If your question 2a) about MySQL is separate from this, you could try the JDBC river plugin I wrote. https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-river-jdbc It is built to pull quickly DB result sets out of any JDBC source with SQL statements and index JSON documents into Elasticsearch, without deeper knowledge of programming JDBC or ES. It's ideal to get some feet wet for PoCs and live showcases. It's not a full-fledged solution for every use case though. You are free to adapt the JDBC river to your needs, it's open source. There are other river plugins or solutions available for question 2b) and 2c) like for example http://www.scrutmydocs.org/ As you have noticed, there is no pricing info about Elasticsearch. It's source code is licensed with Apache License 2.0 and it is free to download, compile, modify, and distribute. That means, you can build your business around it, build dashboards as you like etc. Ask the company for service, I'm sure they can help you. Jörg On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Phoenix Kiula <phoenix.ki...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi. I'm somewhat familiar with Splunk, because our company invested in it. > Now it's proving to be expensive so we're looking for alternatives. (It's a > super tool though) > > ElasticSearch was recommended on Quora. But downloading and trying to > install it is hideous. This seems for tech nerds. Or am I missing > something? I'm on a Mac OSX and want to try it out. The Splunk or SumoLogic > installs were 10 seconds and I was up and running. > > Could someone please point me to a simple guide to: > > 1. Install the whole thing: including "LogStash" and "Kibana", because > just searching is not what I wish to do, I want to make sense of the data > and therefore dashboarding is important. I couldn't find a simple step by > step tutorial or guide on the website to install this whole stack. Google > turns up stuff like this -- > http://red-badger.com/blog/2013/11/08/getting-started-with-elasticsearch/ -- > which is ridiculously dysfunctional. (And I don't want to install "brew" > just to install simple stuff.) > > 2. Secondly, once installed, I'd like to know how to simply get the data > into the index from: > a) a MySQL database > b) a folder with XML files...I want to slurp all the files into the > index, and then incrementally only get new files in the future > c) a folder with text log files...and same incremental auto-pickup as > (b) above > > Don't seem to find a simple non-geeky guide to do this. I'm a programmer > in PHP and web technologies (JS etc), and manage my own dedicated Linux > hosting, so not averse to code or commands, but want to find some coherent > and simple guide. > > 3. Thirdly, the demo.kibana.org is hideous. It looks like the best way to > UN-sell this technology. Is there a better place I could see actual Kibana > in use, you know, with a proper dashboard that doesn't look like a screen > from The Matrix in dark black? I'm looking for a business dashboard with > proper dropdown based filters etc. And the ability perhaps to use third > party libraries such as D3 JS. > > Finally, where's the pricing info? Is ElasticSearch completely free? > There's no pricing info anywhere, only the cost of helping out. Is this why > the documentation etc is so poor so that they can charge for helping? > > Many thanks for any pointers. I really want to give this a shot. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/10b30c8e-2554-437d-a48c-39ed38b4f0d3%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAKdsXoFykrRWfWEPeoq%2BcuN0iyPrEyhOt7HuafNOPmFgcRUOhA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
