I might eventually turn this into a template but for now just keeping notes for myself On Github: Create Github repo, do NOT initialize with README, get ssh for project. (git@github.com:harrisjb/<project-name>.git) On my machine: rails new <project-name> –api –database=postgresql git remote add origin git@github.com:harrisjb/<project-name>.git Create DB: rails db:create Gems: bundle install Create PSQL user, role create role <project-name> with superuser createdb login; grant all privileges on database “<project-name>_development” to <psql-user>;

4 steps in the process: Create ec2 instance for Elasticsearch and Kibana, validate networking settings Install ELK oss versions on ec2 instance (no Logstash, just Elasticsearch and Kibana) Set up logging on Elastic Beanstalk via Filebeats Configure Kibana I’ll be installing Elasticsearch and Kibana on an external instance. Logstash and/or Filebeats will live on the Elastic Beanstalk instances forwarding logs to Elasticsearch. Kibana will be on the same instance as