Chapter 10. Expanding Horizons with ELK

In all the previous chapters, we explored all the capabilities of ELK Stack, and how it makes your life easier to analyze logs. Now, we will explore some of the plugins and utilities that extend the capability of the stack and make it more wonderful, secure, and easy to maintain. We'll also take a look at the roadmap for the components of ELK Stack.The following topics are covered in this chapter:

  • Elasticsearch plugins and utilities
    • Curator for index management
    • Shield for security
    • Marvel to monitor
  • ELK roadmap

Elasticsearch plugins and utilities

Elasticsearch is a very important component of ELK Stack, so it's very important to have a good management of the Elasticsearch cluster, and to maintain security. There ...

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