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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

You're reading from Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

Product type Book

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787281868

Pages 434 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Enterprise Search

Authors (2):

Pranav Shukla

Sharath Kumar M N

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

Disclaimer

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Introducing Elastic Stack

2. Getting Started with Elasticsearch

3. Searching-What is Relevant

4. Analytics with Elasticsearch

5. Analyzing Log Data

6. Building Data Pipelines with Logstash

7. Visualizing data with Kibana

8. Elastic X-Pack

9. Running Elastic Stack in Production

10. Building a Sensor Data Analytics Application

11. Monitoring Server Infrastructure

Configuring Metricbeat

The configurations related to Metricbeat are stored in a configuration file named metricbeat.yml, and it uses YAML syntax.

The metricbeat.yml file contains the following:

Module configuration
General settings
Output configuration
Processor configuration
Path configuration
Dashboard configuration
Logging configuration

Let's explore some of these sections.

Note

The location of the metricbeat.yml file will be present in the installation directory if .zip or .tar files are used for installation. If .dep or .rpm is used for installation, then it will be present in the /etc/metricbeat location.

Module configuration

Metricbeat comes bundled with various modules to collect metrics from the system and applications such as Apache, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, and so on.

Metricbeat provides two ways of enabling modules and metricsets:

Enabling module configs in the modules.d directory
Enabling module configs in the metricbeat.yml file

Enabling module configs in the modules.d directory

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Authors (2)

Pranav Shukla

Pranav Shukla is the founder and CEO of Valens DataLabs, a technologist, husband, and father of two. He is a big data architect and software craftsman who uses JVM-based languages. Pranav has diverse experience of over 14 years in architecting enterprise applications for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. His core expertise lies in building JVM-based, scalable, reactive, and data-driven applications using Java/Scala, the Hadoop ecosystem, Apache Spark, and NoSQL databases. He is a big data engineering, analytics, and machine learning enthusiast.

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Sharath Kumar M N

Sharath Kumar M N did his master's in computer science at the University of Texas, Dallas, USA. He is currently working as a senior principal architect at Broadcom. Prior to this, he was working as an Elasticsearch solutions architect at Oracle. He has given several tech talks at conferences such as Oracle Code events. Sharath is a certified trainer Elastic Certified Instructor one of the few technology experts in the world who has been certified by Elastic Inc. to deliver their official from the creators of Elastic training. He is also a data science and machine learning enthusiast. In his free time, he likes playing with his lovely niece, Monisha; nephew, Chirayu; and his pet, Milo.

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