Switching to Elasticsearch for Storing Metrics
In this lesson, we will see whether we can use Elasticsearch for storing metrics or not.
Using elastic.co to store our metrics #
Now that we had Elasticsearch running in our cluster and knowing that it can handle almost any data type, a logical question could be whether we can use it to store our metrics besides logs. If you explore elastic.co, you’ll see that metrics are indeed something they advertise. If it could replace Prometheus, it would undoubtedly be beneficial to have a single tool that can handle not only logs but also metrics. On top of that, we could ditch Grafana and keep Kibana as a single UI for both data types.
Right tool for the job #
Nevertheless, I would strongly advise against using Elasticsearch for metrics. It is ...