[TriLUG] Open source software to monitor hundreds of VMs

[Matt Pusateri via TriLUG]

Let me be more clear. I’m not saying it’s hard to install. I’m saying prior to https://www.elastic.co it was a lot easier to get the RPM/DEB packages. For a while, all you could get was the latest release, or github.  Which made it feel like they were being intentionally difficult for those wanting a slightly older release. Which made it feel like they wanted to push into their pay model by being difficult.  Having just looked at their website again it’s been about 6 months, I see past releases are now available.  So maybe this has changed.  My comments were meant to reflect that when it was elasticsearch.org it was a lot better than elastic.co and more open source friendly.  Now maybe this is/was just growing pains.   I’ll re-evaluate and be open minded about their direction.

Matt P.


> On Sep 9, 2016, at 12:09 PM, Nikolas Everett <nik9000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com <mailto:mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>> wrote:
> ELK - Elastic Search Logstash Kibana as a project seems to be making it difficult to download/install unless you want to clone github. I'm wondering if their setting up for a more closed or thinly veiled open source model.
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> Going off topic but whatever:
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> If they are no one has told me and I'm an Elastic employee and a full time contributor to Elasticsearch. Each individual project publishes deb and rpm packages. If I had to guess it is just difficult to install because no one has made it easy yet. Each project feels like and individual project because they are. I've never used logstash and only rarely used kibana. I installed a beat once, I think.
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> From Elastic's standpoint hard to install is bad because it really wants you to enjoy using all the bits of the Elastic stack and decide to pay for a subscription because the subscription comes with some shiny feature. I'm genuinely torn about which features should be open source vs closed source but I think for the most part Elastic has made the right calls. Still, it is hard because I want as much as possible to be open source but I'd like to continue to be payed to work on open source software and if no one pays Elastic for stuff I'd be out of a job.
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