Create rolling monthly, weekly and daily Logstash indices

How often should a new log index be created? Once a day, Once a week, Once a month? A simple search in Google would return various responses each arguing the pros and cons of creating indexes daily or weekly. Lets look at how to do that with logstash.

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Introduction to ELK stack 5.x – Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana

The Elk stack is a serious competitor in the log analysis market. ELK Stands for Elastic, LogStash and Kibana, three individual products that work together to collect, index and display the information in various ways useful for the end user.

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