Amazon EKS Workshop > Intermediate > Logging with Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana (EFK)

Implement Logging with EFK

In this Chapter, we will deploy a common Kubernetes logging pattern which consists of the following:

Fluentd is an open source data collector providing a unified logging layer, supported by 500+ plugins connecting to many types of systems.
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine.
Kibana lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data.

Together, Fluentd, Elasticsearch and Kibana is also known as “EFK stack”. Fluentd will forward logs from the individual instances in the cluster to a centralized logging backend (CloudWatch Logs) where they are combined for higher-level reporting using ElasticSearch and Kibana.