Tipp: PowerShell Universal Dashboard

Ansprechende Dashboards lassen sich mit vielen Verschiedenen Anwendungen erzeugen, beispielsweise Kibana und Grafana. Dashboards lassen sich aber auch direkt mit der PowerShell erzeugen. Die Firma Ironman Software bietet dazu das Modul “Powershell Universal Dashboard” an. Die Community Edition ist kostenlos nutzbar und hat nur wenige Einschränkungen gegenüber der Enterprise Edition. Hier gibt es einen Überblick … Read more

Exchange Server Dashboards with ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) Part 3

In part 2 of this article series, I described the installation of the ELK stack on Debian 9.8. This part is about the configuration of the individual components and the data of the Exchange Server message tracking logs. Introduction In this article, the ElasticStack components and the Exchange Server are configured. This article refers directly to ... Read more

Exchange Server Dashboards with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Part 2

As already announced, I would like to realize dashboards for Exchange Server with Elasticsearch, more precisely, the Elastic Stack (ELK). This part is about the installation of the Elastic Stack on a Debian 9.8 VM. Introduction I have described the installation and configuration in this article so that the environment can be recreated if you are interested. When I ... Read more

Exchange Server Dashboards with ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) Part 1

Unfortunately, Exchange Server does not offer a build-in option to clearly display the status of the environment or certain performance parameters on a dashboard. Even many monitoring tools quickly reach their limits when it comes to clearly displaying the number of emails received or sent, for example. In this series of articles, I would therefore like to take a look at ELK, or the Elastic Stack ... Read more