Key termsΒΆ

The table below lists the key terms that are used in this document.

Term Definition
StackLight Collector A smart monitoring agent running on every node which collects and processes the logs and the notifications of your OpenStack environment.
Elasticsearch

An open-source (Apache-licensed) application based on the Lucene search engine that makes data-like log messages easy to explore and correlate.

Elasticsearch is written in Java and uses Lucene internally for all of its indexing and searching, but it aims to make full-text search easy by hiding the complexities of Lucene behind a simple, coherent RESTful API.

Kibana An open-source (Apache-licensed) browser-based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is easy to setup and use.