Setup questions

Elastic Stack Logstash
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We are setting up logstach/Elastisearch and Kibana.

Ik have the basics setup and am trying to adres some question/wishes from other developers.

The 2 most important ones are:

Question 1:
Can we send binary or stuff like soap messages along and store then/retrieve them als file.

The reason behind this that the system communicaties to other services with json or xml messages. For problem analysis it would be nice to have this in the same place as the log4j output. We search for all logging with case number casexxxxnrmbr and get all log statemesn and the files.

Quenstion 2:
Is more related to kibana. Can we open the kiban dashboard and run on opening a query based on a parameter.

I gues this will be possible but does anybody have tips or hint in what is the best way to do this.

Thanks in advance.

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Can we send binary or stuff like soap messages along and store then/retrieve them als file.

Yes, but storing binary data in ES might not be the best option. Your using precious ES resources for storing data that you can't search.

Is more related to kibana. Can we open the kiban dashboard and run on opening a query based on a parameter.

Isn't the query part of the URL?

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Most of the data in the files would be searchable. But soap messages can contain base64 encoded pdf files or images. We want to create a solution there devop engigneers have a single entry point for retrieving stored logging and files and messages related to a case.