Using Metrics Toolkit with Bundled ELK Dashboards
This document covers steps to setup and integrate ELK with Metrics-Toolkit (formerly metrics accelerator/framework) in the local Windows environment. To be more specific, we will be installing Elasticsearch to capture the metrics and Kibana to visualize that data on dashboards. We’ll be making use of the pre-built dashboards that come bundled with the Metrics-Toolkit. Now, we can either install and use Elasticsearch & Kibana directly in the local environment or we can also deploy them in Docker containers. For this guide, we will be using the Docker option. Also, since the Metrics-Toolkit repository has not been updated in a while, for this guide, we are using version 8.4.1 of Elasticsearch and Kibana for better compatibility. However, you should be able to use the latest versions just as fine. Let’s begin... Pre-requisites Installed Docker Desktop - Link If you are using WSL 2 Based Engine in Docker instead of Hyper-V backend, then make sure that your .wslconfig file (Refer - Li...