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aws-elk-billing

Overview

aws-elk-billing is a combination of configuration snippets and tools to assist with indexing AWS programatic billing access files(CSV’s) and visualizing the data using Kibana.
Currently it supports AWS Cost and Usage Report type, although it might work for other AWS Billing Report Types which contains some extra columns along with all the columns from AWS Cost and Usage Report.
You can create AWS Cost and Usage Report at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home#/reports
or follow instructions at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/detailed-billing-reports.html#turnonreports

Architecture

There are Four Docker containers.

  1. Elasticsearch 2.3.3 (https://github.com/PriceBoardIn/elasticsearch/tree/2.3.3)
  2. Kibana (https://github.com/PriceBoardIn/kibana)
  3. Logstash (https://github.com/PriceBoardIn/logstash)
  4. aws-elk-billing (Refer: Dockerfile of this repository)

Integration among the 4 containers is done with docker-compose.yml

Primary Components

Task
Files

Logstash configuration
logstash.conf

Kibana configuration
kibana.yml

Elasticsearch index mapping
aws-billing-es-template.json

Indexing Kibana dashboard
kibana/orchestrate_dashboard.sh

Indexing Kibana visualisation
kibana/orchestrate_visualisation.sh

Indexing Kibana default index (This file is just for reference purpose, we will automate this part eventually)
kibana/orchestrate_kibana.sh

Parsing the aws-billing CSV’s and sending to logstash
main.go

Connecting the dots: Wait for ELK Stack to start listening on their respective ports, downloads, extracts the latest compressed billing report from S3, XDELETE previous index of the current month, Index mapping, Index kibana_dashboard, Index kibana_visualization and finally executes main.go

orchestrate.py

Integrating all 4 containers

Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml

Getting Started

Clone the Repository and make sure that no process is listening to the ports used by all these dockers.

Ports
Process

9200, 9300
Elasticsearch

5160
Kibana

5140
Logstash

Set S3 credentials and AWS Billing bucket and directory name

Rename prod.sample.env to prod.env and provide values for the following keys AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, S3_BUCKET_NAME, S3_REPORT_PATH

S3_BUCKET_NAME = S3 bucket name (Refer the image below)
S3_REPORT_PATH = Report path (Refer the image below)
S3_REPORT_NAME = Report name (Refer the image below)

prod.env is added in .gitignore so that you don’t push your credentials upstream accidentally.
![Alt text]( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PriceBoardIn/aws-elk-billing/master/screenshots/aws cost and usage reports console.png)

Run Docker

The entire process is automated through scripts and docker. All the components would be downloaded automatically inside your docker

  1. sudo docker-compose up -d
  2. View Kibana at http://localhost:5601
    2.1 Use the index pattern as aws-billing-* and select the time field as lineItem/UsageStartDate
    2.2 Kibana AWS Billing Dashboard http://localhost:5601/app/kibana#/dashboard/AWS-Billing-DashBoard
    2.3 For MAC replace localhost with the ip of docker-machine
    To find IP of docker-machine docker-machine ip default

3 . sudo docker-compose down to shutdown all the docker containers.

Gotchas

  • aws-elk-billing container will take time while running the following two process [Filename: orchestrate.py].

    1. Downloading and extracting AWS Billing report from AWS S3.
    2. Depending on the size of AWS Billing CSV report main.go will take time to index all the data to Elasticsearch via Logstash.
  • You can view the dashboard in kibana, even while main.go is still indexing the data.
  • In order to index new data, you’ll have to run docker-compose up -d again.


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