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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

By : Pranav Shukla, Sharath Kumar
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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

4.5 (10)
By: Pranav Shukla, Sharath Kumar

Overview of this book

The Elastic Stack is a powerful combination of tools for distributed search, analytics, logging, and visualization of data from medium to massive data sets. The newly released Elastic Stack 6.0 brings new features and capabilities that empower users to find unique, actionable insights through these techniques. This book will give you a fundamental understanding of what the stack is all about, and how to use it efficiently to build powerful real-time data processing applications. After a quick overview of the newly introduced features in Elastic Stack 6.0, you’ll learn how to set up the stack by installing the tools, and see their basic configurations. Then it shows you how to use Elasticsearch for distributed searching and analytics, along with Logstash for logging, and Kibana for data visualization. It also demonstrates the creation of custom plugins using Kibana and Beats. You’ll find out about Elastic X-Pack, a useful extension for effective security and monitoring. We also provide useful tips on how to use the Elastic Cloud and deploy the Elastic Stack in production environments. On completing this book, you’ll have a solid foundational knowledge of the basic Elastic Stack functionalities. You’ll also have a good understanding of the role of each component in the stack to solve different data processing problems.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Getting Started with Elasticsearch

In the first chapter we looked at the reasons for learning about and using Elastic Stack, and the use cases of Elastic Stack.
In this chapter, we will start our journey of learning about Elastic Stack, starting at the core of Elastic Stack—Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is the search and analytics engine behind Elastic Stack. We will learn the core concepts of Elasticsearch while doing some hands-on practice; we will learn about querying, filtering, and searching.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Using the Kibana Console UI
  • Core concepts
  • CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations
  • Creating indexes and taking control of mapping
  • REST API overview
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