In the last article, Understanding the Elastic Stack, I broke down the various Elastic components (check it out for a quick refresher). Now we will use the REST API provided by Elasticsearch as the back-end for a simple project. But before, let us discuss why we want to use Elasticsearch REST API as back-end.

The functionality of the back-end:

This blog will look into the entire Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana). 

In this blog, we will cover the Elasticsearch basics and answer questions including:

In this tutorial, we will provide step-by-step instructions on how to encrypt communication among Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash. After the setup, Elasticsearch and Kibana can be accessed by web browsers via https.