Exchange Server Dashboards with ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) Part 4

In part 3 of this article series, I described the configuration of the ELK components. If someone has already built the environment up to this point, there should already be some data records from the Exchange Message Tracking Logs in the Elasticsearch instance. Introduction This article is about the creation of a simple Kibana dashboard, which provides initial data ... 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