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ELK is dead, long live ...?

In 2013 you set up centralised logging by installing Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana, and the reason that was a good decision is that it was not really a decision. Ten years on, every letter has multiple credible answers, the licence under the first one has moved, and the integration work is yours. Here is what happened, what it costs, and the four questions I now use to pick a stack.

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Elasticsearch is no longer open source

Elastic has moved Elasticsearch and Kibana off Apache 2.0 and onto the SSPL and its own licence. The source is still readable. It is no longer open source, and that changes what any managed service can honestly promise.

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