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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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Enterprise Search

Authors (2):

Ravi Kumar Gupta

Yuvraj Gupta

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Mastering Elastic Stack

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

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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

An overview of the different types of Beats

In this section, we will look at some of the beats that have been developed and are in use by enterprises for development and production purposes. Beats are being developed and enhanced by Elastic as well as by the community.

The following are some of the beats developed by Elastic:

Packetbeat
Metricbeat
Filebeat
Winlogbeat
Libbeat

The following are some of the beats developed by the open source community:

Apachebeat
Dockbeat
Elasticbeat
Execbeat
Httpbeat
Lmsensorsbeat
MySQLbeat
Twitterbeat and more

Note

Elastic does not provide any support for the open source community developed Beats.

Beats by Elastic Team

As mentioned earlier, we will take a look at the different types of beats provided by Elastic Team in order to understand what each type of beat means and what functionalities they offer.

Packetbeat

Packetbeat is the main beat that started as a project outside Elastic, and the company that Elastic acquired for creating their Beats Platform has become an integral...

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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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