# About the Logs category

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-logs-category/156755>\
**Category:** Logs\
**Created:** [November 14, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-logs-category/156755 "2018-11-14T22:48:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-logs-category/156755/1 "2018-11-14T22:48:09Z")

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## Open source log monitoring

The Elastic Stack (sometimes known as the ELK Stack) is the most popular free and open logging platform. This is the place for any questions you may have on [log monitoring](https://www.elastic.co/log-monitoring).