Learning Elastic Stack 6.0: A beginner's guide to distributed search, analytics, and visualization using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana

by Pranav Shukla, Sharath Kumar M N

Deliver end-to-end real-time distributed data processing solutions by leveraging the power of Elastic Stack 6.0 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. This book is for data professionals who want to get amazing insights and business metrics from their data sources. If you want to get a fundamental understanding of the Elastic Stack for distributed, real-time processing of data, this book will help you. A fundamental knowledge of JSON would be useful, but is not mandatory. No previous experience with the Elastic Stack is required.

434 pages, Paperback

Published December 22, 2017

Reviews

[Ahmad hosseini · Rating 3 out of 5]

Elastic Stack is a powerful combination of tools for distributed search, analytics, logging, and visualization of data from medium to massive data sets. The main components of Elastic Stack are Kibana, Logstash, Beats, X-Pack, and Elasticsearch.
Elastic Stack is a very approachable platform for developers, architectures, business intelligence analytics, and system administration.
The book is good for learning the basic concepts of Elastic Stack. It describes all tools in Elastic Stack. It also has recommendation for deploying and using Elastic Stack in production environment.

[Stein Karlsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, useful explanations of concepts and use cases for aspects of elastic stack

[Роман Вашурин · Rating 2 out of 5]

Most of the time it reads like concatenated documentation with little editing.

[Vinicius Souza · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good overview of the ELK stack, with a lot of code samples and examples. A little boring due to the format, but very informative

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