Use the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) stack to build systems that provide actionable insights and business metrics from data sources, including creating amazing visualizations and dashboards. Learn how to set up the ELK stack, build a data pipeline, and create customized plugins.Practical ELK Stack will teach you to configure the software, install tools, and build a data pipeline. You will learn the key features of Logstash and its role in the ELK stack, including creating Logstash plugins, which will enable you to use your own customized plugins. The importance of Elasticsearch and Kibana in the ELK stack is covered, along with various types of advanced data analysis, including charts, tables, and maps.The simple and powerful nature of ELK stack has contributed to its quick adoption. Diverse scenarios are covered, ranging from social media analysis to grid monitoring at CERN. You will see how ELK stack is being used at companies such as Facebook, Github, and Netflix.
What You'll Learn
Understand the need for log analytics, and current challenges
Perform real-time data analytics on streaming data, and turn them into actionable insights
Create indexing and delete data
Understand the different components of ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) stack
Understand Shipping, Filtering, and Parsing Events with Logstash
Build amazing visualizations and dashboards using Data Discovery, Visualization, and Dashboard with KibanaWho This Book Is For
Developers or DevOps engineers interested in building systems that provide amazing insights and business metrics out of different data sources using the ELK stack
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Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1: Introduction to ELK StackChapter Goal: This chapter emphasizes the importance of log analysis in today's big data crazy world. It would go on to analyze the challenges with log analysis. It presents ELK stack as a thorough solution for log analysis. Different components of ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana are introduced with a description of their functions and installation.No of pages: 25 Sub -Topics1. Log Analysis in Today's World2. The ELK Stack3. ELK Data Pipeline4. ELK Stack Installation"
Chapter 2: Shipping, Filtering and Parsing Events with LogstashChapter Goal: The goal of this chapter is to get started with using Logstash for log generation, collection and filtering. It starts with introducing configuration settings of Logstash. It then goes on to illustrate how Logstash facilitates shipping of logs, filtering and transforming any type of data to a common format. This can further help in arriving at actionable insights.No of pages: 40Sub - Topics 1. Configuring Logstash2. Shipping Events3. Filtering Events with Logstash4. Outputting Events from Logstash"
Gurpreet S. Sachdeva is a Technology Leader with 20 years of experience working on some of the most challenging technologies related to Communication Software, Enterprise Computing and Cloud Computing. Gurpreet received his B. Tech (Computer Engineering) from NIT, Kurukshetra and M.S. (Software Systems) from BITS, Pilani. He is currently working as Director – Technology with Aricent, Gurgaon. He is a keen Java enthusiast and co-founder of Delhi - NCR - Java User Group. Gurpreet is passionate about building cloud scale software and manage it through ELK stack along with other DevOps tools.
Gurpreet is an invited speaker in prestigious conferences like Oracle – Java One, Great India Developer Summit, Indic Threads. Gurpreet blogs at http://www.thistechnologylife.com
