Is setting up elk stack on docker intentionaly this complicated?

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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I've been dealing with this for a couple hours now, followed half a dozen tutorials

i am not a noob, i've set up a thousand servers, i run my own stack at home with a dozen containers.

but this? impossible.

does anyone have a minimal viable configuration to run this on my own server to analyze my docker container logs ?

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Welcome!

What did you try so far?
Did you successfully started Elasticsearch and Kibana so far?

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cant even paste the link to the tutorials

i gave up

forget it

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i imagine this is intentional to try users to go get your cloud subscription

i dont see any other reason

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It's hard to help if you don't tell what the problem is.

i imagine this is intentional to try users to go get your cloud subscription

No. It's not. Even if you run on cloud, I will ask the same questions. What is your current status? Do you have an Elasticsearch / Kibana instance running yet?

Anyway, in case you did not start yet successfully your Elastic cluster, here is a simple guide which tells you to run first:

curl -fsSL https://elastic.co/start-local | sh

Not sure if you did that yet or no...

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this doesn't even give you docker-compose file

i like my volumes in the same folder, this sets them globally

i followed the "Get starting guide" on this same website where there is a link to github repo with docker-compose file and logstash config file

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i ran your script, containers are running but it's unaccessible on localhost port 5601

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with a few tweaks i got it running but it wont let me login

You do not have permission to access the requested page

Either go back to the previous page or log in as a different user.

i've used u: kibana_system and pass is in .env. there is no other username variable in env nor docker compose ...

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The password is printed when you start the script.

But if you want a finer control on everything, you can follow the installation guide from Install Elasticsearch with Docker | Elasticsearch Guide [8.17] | Elastic

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see, needlessly complicated ... you close shell too soon, and it's gone, start from scratch.

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Do you want to run it for production? For test?

If the later, then I personally think that running curl -fsSL https://elastic.co/start-local | sh is not that complicated. It starts one elasticsearch cluster, one kibana instance, and prints an API Key and a password.

docker-start
docker-start1884×608 98.5 KB

And then, open http://localhost:5601

image
image1628×1320 125 KB

Gives:

image
image2396×1360 353 KB

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yes thanks i'm in now

they could've put username and password in env since it already exists

i want to run it on my home server where i keep homeassistant, nextcloud, pihole, mailserver and a couple others

i would like to monitor logs from my docker containers

so i guess production

i also disabled premium features, reverted license to basic in settings