Step 1: Set Up an Ubuntu Instance on AWS

1. Launch an EC2 Instance:
   • Go to the AWS Management Console and launch an EC2 instance.
   • Choose Ubuntu as your OS (18.04 or 20.04 LTS is commonly used).
   • Select an instance type, such as t2.medium for small-scale deployments (you might need larger instances for more data).

• Create Key-pair

• Configure security groups to allow the following ports:
  • 9200 (Elasticsearch HTTP interface)
  • 5044 (Logstash Beats input)
  • 5601 (Kibana web interface)
  • 22 (for SSH access)

Server successfully Launched

Step 2: Connect to Your EC2 Instance

Change the permissions of the ELK-Server-KeyPair.pem file

chmod 400 ELK-Server-KeyPair.pem

• Use SSH to connect to the EC2 instance using your terminal:

  #Sample
  ssh -i "your-key.pem" ubuntu@<instance-ip>
  
  # Actual Code
  ssh -i ELK-Server-KeyPair.pem [email protected]
  

  

Step 3: Install Java (Required for ELK)

Elasticsearch and Logstash require Java to run. Run the following commands to install Java:

Step 4: Install Elasticsearch

• Step 4.1: Configure Elasticsearch

sudo su
apt update
apt install default-jdk default-jre -y