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Published inMar 2022
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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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Collecting logs using Filebeat

If you have successfully set up nginx to serve the Recipe Search Service web page, you will have noticed some access and error logs being generated for every request served by the web server. The logs can often contain useful insights into how the web server is being used, the distribution of requests being made, and where requests originate from.

Collecting these logs using Filebeat is easy. Follow the instructions to set up the Filebeat agent to collect the logs and ship them to your Elasticsearch deployment for analysis:

  1. Install Filebeat on the web server host. Detailed installation options for installing Elastic Stack components are provided in Chapter 2, Installing and Running the Elastic Stack.
  2. The Filebeat agent can be configured from the filebeat.yml file located in the /etc/filebeat/ directory on Linux installations or in the config/ directory on tar archives. Edit the file as shown in the reference file, Chapter6/filebeat/filebeat...
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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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