Setting up ELK

We will be setting up ELK locally using Docker. We have used Docker in many chapters, so it should be easy for us to set up ELK using it. We will be using the official Docker image that available on Docker Hub. We will be using Elasticsearch 2.4.1, Logstash 2.4.0, and Kibana 4.6.1 for our setup. Enter the following command:  

$ docker run -p 5601:5601 -p 5000:5000 -it --name elk sebp/elk:es241_l240_k461

The moment you run the preceding command, Docker will connect to Docker Hub, download the image, and then the container for the ELK stack will be created. Once the Docker container is loaded successfully, we should be able to access the Kibana dashboard through the browser using localhost:5601.

Now we need to create a public hostname and port from the localhost port 5000, for which we need to tunnel our localhost. For our example, we will use https://burrow.io.