Mastering Elastic Stack

Summary

If we talk about customization of four tools, it would take four different chapters to begin with. However, we tried to understand the ways a tool can be extended. In this chapter, we learned about extending Elasticsearch by learning how a plugin is organized and popular ways to customize.

Later in the chapter, we created a Logstash plugin, which captured data from the Openweathermap.org server and sent it to Elasticsearch. We also learned about creating a new beat with example of collecting data from the same web service. Finally, we set up the Kibana development environment and learned to create a very basic hack of changing the title of the Kibana pages by appending PACKT to it.

In the next chapter, we will be revisiting Elasticsearch ...