[wampwamp]

For small apps I would use Monit to watch the server processes combined with CloudWatch to watch the servers themselves.

I would investigate the TICK stack (influxdb) before ELK. TICK is great for metrics that are not stored in log files. tail + awk should be enough for managing log files if you only have a few servers.

[BloodKnight9923]

I'm only working with logs across 8 servers with a lot of cross talk and ELK covered the logging side brilliantly, but falls over on metrics from what I have seen so far. I'll check out the TICK stack, that sounds like it may be a welcome replacement.

Thanks for the suggestion!