Kibana only knows to query Elasticsearch, so you essentially have to have ES running in the background. You can use a short TTL on messages so they expire automatically after a few sec/mins.
But to me it seems using Kibana is going overboard if all you want to do is some graphics on top of some custom API? -- Itamar Syn-Hershko http://code972.com | @synhershko <https://twitter.com/synhershko> Freelance Developer & Consultant Author of RavenDB in Action <http://manning.com/synhershko/> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Chris Holt <zuzz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to set up a real time streaming dashboard for logs, which > would collect logs using fluentd or similar, and all I would want to do is > extract running statistics from the data eg firewall denies / second. I > don't want to keep the data for any time, I just want to get the stats, so > ideally I wouldn't even want to store the logs in ElasticSearch at all (but > I know I have to for a short period) > > Any suggestions on how I would do that, with a low retention time for > logs, so that Kibana could be used as a live dashboard? > > Thanks! > > -- > 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/33476786-71a6-443c-893d-90a51c0e6ad7%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/33476786-71a6-443c-893d-90a51c0e6ad7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAHTr4ZteAXyjgWVyKZXN8%3DAD2oAmxN4XO1xB6_rmAs775i5%3DxQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
