Engineering Discovery - Installing ElasticSearch as a GitLab Managed Application

Problem to solve

In order to continue to increment the maturity of our logging category, we'll need to move forward with a centralized logging service that will enable aggregation, search and filtering across multiple projects and services.

Intended users

Further details

Proposal

Investigate possibility of installing ElasticSearch as a GitLab managed application to meet future use cases.

Out of scope:

• Determining an architecture for large scale
• Considering other centralized logging solutions (Loki)

Permissions and Security

Documentation

Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

Links / references