To do log monitoring for Series Reminder I built a custom ELK stack. The primary challenge was securely getting logs from a cloud server to a home server without opening network ports, which I solved with a pull-based, event-driven architecture using AWS S3 and SQS. This system, automated by Jenkins and a multi-threaded Java application, resulted in a unified and cost-effective monitoring solution that provided deep insights into application and http access logs.
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