Book description
Get the most out of the Elastic Stack for various complex analytics using this comprehensive and practical guide
About This Book
- Your one-stop solution to perform advanced analytics with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
- Learn how to make better sense of your data by searching, analyzing, and logging data in a systematic way
- This highly practical guide takes you through an advanced implementation on the ELK stack in your enterprise environment
Who This Book Is For
This book cater to developers using the Elastic stack in their day-to-day work who are familiar with the basics of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, and now want to become an expert at using the Elastic stack for data analytics.
What You Will Learn
- Build a pipeline with help of Logstash and Beats to visualize Elasticsearch data in Kibana
- Use Beats to ship any type of data to the Elastic stack
- Understand Elasticsearch APIs, modules, and other advanced concepts
- Explore Logstash and it's plugins
- Discover how to utilize the new Kibana UI for advanced analytics
- See how to work with the Elastic Stack using other advanced configurations
- Customize the Elastic Stack and plugin development for each of the component
- Work with the Elastic Stack in a production environment
- Explore the various components of X-Pack in detail.
In Detail
Even structured data is useless if it can't help you to take strategic decisions and improve existing system. If you love to play with data, or your job requires you to process custom log formats, design a scalable analysis system, and manage logs to do real-time data analysis, this book is your one-stop solution. By combining the massively popular Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, and Kibana, elastic.co has advanced the end-to-end stack that delivers actionable insights in real time from almost any type of structured or unstructured data source. If your job requires you to process custom log formats, design a scalable analysis system, explore a variety of data, and manage logs, this book is your one-stop solution. You will learn how to create real-time dashboards and how to manage the life cycle of logs in detail through real-life scenarios.
This book brushes up your basic knowledge on implementing the Elastic Stack and then dives deeper into complex and advanced implementations of the Elastic Stack. We'll help you to solve data analytics challenges using the Elastic Stack and provide practical steps on centralized logging and real-time analytics with the Elastic Stack in production. You will get to grip with advanced techniques for log analysis and visualization. Newly announced features such as Beats and X-Pack are also covered in detail with examples.
Toward the end, you will see how to use the Elastic stack for real-world case studies and we'll show you some best practices and troubleshooting techniques for the Elastic Stack.
Style and approach
This practical guide shows you how to perform advanced analytics with the Elastic stack through real-world use cases. It includes common and some not so common scenarios to use the Elastic stack for data analysis.
Table of contents
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Mastering Elastic Stack
- Mastering Elastic Stack
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Preface
- 1. Elastic Stack Overview
- 2. Stepping into Elasticsearch
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3. Exploring Logstash and Its Plugins
- Introduction to Logstash
- Why do we need Logstash?
- Features of Logstash
- Logstash Plugin Architecture
- Logstash Configuration File Structure
- Types of Plugins
- Exploring Input Plugins
- Exploring Filter Plugins
- Exploring Output Plugins
- Exploring Codec Plugins
- Plugins Command-Line Options
- Logstash command-line options
- Logstash Tips and Tricks
- Logstash Configuration for Parsing Logs
- Monitoring APIs
- Summary
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4. Kibana Interface
- Kibana and its offerings
- Exploring the discover interface
- Time Filter
- Querying and Searching data
- Fields and filters
- Discovery page options
- Exploring the visualize interface
- Exploring the Dashboard interface
- Understanding Timelion
- Exploring Dev Tools
- Exploring the Management interface
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Putting it all together
- Input data
- Creating a Logstash configuration file
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Using Kibana
- Top states based on 2003 RUCC
- Top states based on 2003 UIC
- Top five area names with less than high school diploma 1970
- Top five area names with high school diploma 1970
- Percentage of adults having less than high school diploma in 1970 by area and state
- Top states as per their count and their top 2013 RUCC
- Insights
- Creating a dashboard in Kibana
- Summary
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5. Using Beats
- Introduction to Beats
- How Beats differ from Logstash
- How Beats fits into Elastic Stack
- An overview of the different types of Beats
- Exploring Elastic Team Beats
- Exploring Community Beats
- Beats in action with Elastic Stack
- Summary
- 6. Elastic Stack in Action
- 7. Customizing Elastic Stack
- 8. Elasticsearch APIs
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9. X-Pack: Security and Monitoring
- Introduction to X-Pack
- Installation of X-Pack
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Security
- Listing of all users in security
- Listing of roles in security
- Understanding roles in security
- Decoding default user roles
- Adding a role in security
- Updating a role in security
- Understanding Field Level Security
- Adding a user in security
- Updating user details in security
- Changing the password of a user in security
- Deleting a role in security
- Deleting a user in security
- Viewing X-Pack information
- Monitoring
- Understanding Profiler
- Summary
- 10. X-Pack: Alerting, Graph, and Reporting
- 11. Best Practices
- 12. Case Study-Meetup
Product information
- Title: Mastering Elastic Stack
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2017
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781786460011
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