Tip: PowerShell Universal Dashboard

Attractive dashboards can be created with many different applications, such as Kibana and Grafana. However, dashboards can also be created directly with PowerShell. Ironman Software offers the "Powershell Universal Dashboard" module for this purpose. The Community Edition can be used free of charge and has only a few restrictions compared to the Enterprise Edition. Here is an overview ... Read more

Exchange Server Dashboards with ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) Part 3

In part 2 of this article series, I described the installation of the ELK stack on Debian 9.8. This part is about the configuration of the individual components and the data of the Exchange Server message tracking logs. Introduction In this article, the ElasticStack components and the Exchange Server are configured. This article refers directly to ... Read more

Exchange Server Dashboards with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Part 2

As already announced, I would like to realize dashboards for Exchange Server with Elasticsearch, more precisely, the Elastic Stack (ELK). This part is about the installation of the Elastic Stack on a Debian 9.8 VM. Introduction I have described the installation and configuration in this article so that the environment can be recreated if you are interested. When I ... Read more

Exchange Server Dashboards with ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) Part 1

Unfortunately, Exchange Server does not offer a build-in option to clearly display the status of the environment or certain performance parameters on a dashboard. Even many monitoring tools quickly reach their limits when it comes to clearly displaying the number of emails received or sent, for example. In this series of articles, I would therefore like to take a look at ELK, or the Elastic Stack ... Read more