This article gives a brief introduction to the ELK stack and provides a Docker compose orchestration configuration. After reading it, you can get ELK running locally with Docker. A later article will cover deploying ELK on servers and adding the related configuration. 1. Introduction to the ELK Stack ELK is not actually a single piece of software but a whole solution — an acronym formed from the initials of three software products: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.