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Published inMar 2022
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Asjad Athick
Asjad Athick
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Asjad Athick

Asjad Athick is a security specialist at Elastic with demonstratable experience in architecting enterprise-scale solutions on the cloud. He believes in empowering people with the right tools to help them achieve their goals. At Elastic, he works with a broad range of customers across Australia and New Zealand to help them understand their environment; this allows them to build robust threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities. He previously worked in the telecommunications space to build a security capability to help analysts identify and contextualize unknown cyber threats. With a background in application development and technology consulting, he has worked with various small businesses and start-up organizations across Australia.
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In this chapter, we looked at some foundational concepts when it comes to building an observability capability for your environment using the Elastic Stack. We started by looking at how logs, metrics, traces, and synthetic/user experience monitoring work together in helping engineers quickly detect, understand, and remediate potential issues in your environment.

Next, we looked at how the different layers and technologies in your environment should be set up for observability. We explored some of the key data points to consider during collection for analysis and understood how Elastic Agent integrations can be leveraged in quickly onboarding these data sources.

Finally, we looked at setting up code instrumentation and APM for your custom application to gain an in-depth understanding of your code, its performance characteristics, and failure scenarios. We also looked at configuring real user monitoring and synthetic monitoring functionality to give you an end-to-end view...

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Asjad Athick

Asjad Athick is a security specialist at Elastic with demonstratable experience in architecting enterprise-scale solutions on the cloud. He believes in empowering people with the right tools to help them achieve their goals. At Elastic, he works with a broad range of customers across Australia and New Zealand to help them understand their environment; this allows them to build robust threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities. He previously worked in the telecommunications space to build a security capability to help analysts identify and contextualize unknown cyber threats. With a background in application development and technology consulting, he has worked with various small businesses and start-up organizations across Australia.
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