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Published inDec 2017
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Pranav Shukla
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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 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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Installing X-Pack 

As X-Pack is an extension of Elastic Stack, prior to installing X-Pack, you need to have both Elasticsearch and Kibana installed. You must run the version of X-Pack that matches the version of Elasticsearch and Kibana. 

Installing X-Pack on Elasticsearch

X-Pack is installed just like any plugin to extend Elasticsearch.

These are the steps to install X-Pack in Elasticsearch:

  1. Navigate to the ES_HOME folder.
  2. Install X-Pack using the following command:
$ ES_HOME> bin/elasticsearch-plugin install x-pack

During installation, it will ask you to grant extra permissions to X-Pack, which are required by Watcher to send email alerts and also to enable Elasticsearch to launch the machine learning analytical engine. Specify y to continue the installation or N to abort the installation.

You should get the following logs/prompts during installation:

-> Downloading x-pack from elastic
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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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