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Mastering Elastic Stack

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Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786460011

Pages 526 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Ravi Kumar Gupta

Yuvraj Gupta

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Mastering Elastic Stack

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Preface

1. Elastic Stack Overview

2. Stepping into Elasticsearch

3. Exploring Logstash and Its Plugins

4. Kibana Interface

5. Using Beats

6. Elastic Stack in Action

7. Customizing Elastic Stack

8. Elasticsearch APIs

9. X-Pack: Security and Monitoring

10. X-Pack: Alerting, Graph, and Reporting

11. Best Practices

12. Case Study-Meetup

Chapter 1. Elastic Stack Overview

It's as easy to read a log file of a few MBs or hundreds as it is to keep data of this size in databases or files and still get sense out of it. But then a day comes when this data takes up terabytes, petabytes and grows even faster in future. As data demand pushes, normal text editors or word processing tools would refuse to cope up and would not be able to open such a large dataset. There would be a need to analyze the raw data which can be used to discover insights. You start to find something for huge log management, or something that can index the data properly and make sense out of it. If you Google this, you will stumble upon ELK Stack. Elasticsearch manages your data, Logstash reads the data from different sources, and Kibana makes a fine visualization of it.

Recently, ELK Stack has evolved as Elastic Stack. We will get to know more about it in this chapter, along with setting it up. The following are the points that will be covered in this chapter:

Introduction to ELK Stack
The birth of Elastic Stack
Who uses the Stack
Stack competitors
Setting up Elastic Stack
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Authors (2)

Ravi Kumar Gupta

Ravi Kumar Gupta is an author, reviewer, and open source software evangelist. He pursued an MS degree in software system at BITS Pilani and a B.Tech at LNMIIT, Jaipur. His technological forte is portal management and development. He is currently working with Azilen Technologies, where he acts as a Technical Architect and Project Manager. His previous assignment was as a lead consultant with CIGNEX Datamatics. He was a core member of the open source group at TCS, where he started working on Liferay and other UI technologies. During his career, he has been involved in building enterprise solutions using the latest technologies with rich user interfaces and open source tools. He loves to spend time writing, learning, and discussing new technologies. His interest in search engines and that small project on crawler during college time made him a technology lover. He is one of the authors of Test-Driven JavaScript Development, Packt Publishing. He is an active member of the Liferay forum. He also writes technical articles for his blog at TechD of Computer World (http://techdc.blogspot.in). He has been a Liferay trainer at TCS and CIGNEX, where he has provided training on Liferay 5.x and 6.x versions. He was also a reviewer for Learning Bootstrap, Packt Publishing. He can be reached on Skype at kravigupta, on Twitter at @kravigupta, and on LinkedIn at https://in.linkedin.com/in/kravigupta.

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Yuvraj Gupta

Yuvraj Gupta is an author and a keen technologist with interest towards Big Data, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Cloud Computing. He has been working as a Big Data Consultant primarily in domain of Big Data Testing. He loves to spend time writing on various social platforms. He is an avid gadget lover, a foodie, a sports enthusiast and love to watch tv-series or movies. He always keep himself updated with the latest happenings in technology. He has authored a book titled Kibana Essentials with Packt Publishers. He can be reached at gupta.yuvraj@gmail.com or at LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/guptayuvraj.

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