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Heartbeat, ELK

A heartbeat in distributed systems is a periodic signal sent by a node to inform others of its status. Heartbeats help detect failures and enable load balancing and resource allocation. The ELK stack uses heartbeats to ingest data from Logstash into Elasticsearch for storage and visualization in Kibana.

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Heartbeat, ELK

A heartbeat in distributed systems is a periodic signal sent by a node to inform others of its status. Heartbeats help detect failures and enable load balancing and resource allocation. The ELK stack uses heartbeats to ingest data from Logstash into Elasticsearch for storage and visualization in Kibana.

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Heartbeat: A heartbeat in distributed systems is a periodic signal or message sent by a node or component

to inform others of its operational status and health.

Purpose:
● Liveness Monitoring: Heartbeats help detect if a node or process is alive and responsive. If heartbeats
stop, it may indicate a failure.
● Failure Detection: They are crucial for timely identification of node failures or network partitions.
● Load Balancing: In load balancing scenarios, heartbeats can be used to distribute incoming requests
efficiently.
● Resource Allocation: Heartbeats may convey information about resource availability or utilization.

How it Works:
● Nodes or processes periodically send heartbeat signals/messages to a central coordinator or to one
another.
● If a node stops sending heartbeats within a predefined time (timeout), it is considered unavailable or
failed.
● Failure detection mechanisms can trigger actions like node recovery, redistribution of work, or raising
alerts.

ELK Stack:

Elasticsearch:
● Purpose: A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine designed for horizontal scalability and
real-time search.
● Use Cases: Storing, searching, and analyzing large volumes of data, such as logs, metrics, and
application-generated data.
● Features: Full-text search, Fuzzy search, schema-free JSON documents, near real-time indexing, and
extensive querying capabilities.

Logstash:
● Purpose: A server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it,
and sends it to Elasticsearch.
● Use Cases: Data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment for logs, metrics, and other events.
● Features: Numerous input, filter, and output plugins for handling diverse data formats and sources.

Kibana:
● Purpose: A web-based visualization and exploration tool for Elasticsearch data.
● Use Cases: Creating dashboards, visualizations, and exploring data stored in Elasticsearch.
● Features: Graphical representation of data, real-time monitoring, and user-friendly dashboards.

Workflow:
● Ingest: Logstash ingests data from various sources, applies filters, and processes it.
● Store: Processed data is stored in Elasticsearch, which can handle large-scale data storage and
querying.
● Visualize: Kibana provides a user interface to create visualizations and dashboards for data
exploration.

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