Learning Elastic Stack 7.0: Distributed search, analytics, and visualization using Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, and Kibana, 2nd Edition

by Pranav Shukla, Sharath Kumar M N

A beginner's guide to storing, managing, and analyzing data with the updated features of Elastic 7.0 The Elastic Stack is a powerful combination of tools for techniques such as distributed search, analytics, logging, and visualization of data. Elastic Stack 7.0 encompasses new features and capabilities that will enable you to find unique insights into analytics using these techniques. This book will give you a fundamental understanding of what the stack is all about, and help you use it efficiently to build powerful real-time data processing applications. The first few sections of the book will help you understand how to set up the stack by installing tools, and exploring their basic configurations. You'll then get up to speed with using Elasticsearch for distributed searching and analytics, Logstash for logging, and Kibana for data visualization. As you work through the book, you will discover the technique of creating custom plugins using Kibana and Beats. This is followed by coverage of the Elastic X-Pack, a useful extension for effective security and monitoring. You'll also find helpful tips on how to use Elastic Cloud and deploy Elastic Stack in production environments. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed with the fundamental Elastic Stack functionalities and the role of each component in the stack to solve different data processing problems. This book is for entry-level data professionals, software engineers, e-commerce developers, and full-stack developers who want to learn about Elastic Stack and how the real-time processing and search engine works for business analytics and enterprise search applications. Previous experience with Elastic Stack is not required, however knowledge of data warehousing and database concepts will be helpful.

Genres: Technology

474 pages, Paperback

Published May 31, 2019

Reviews

[Dmytro Chaban · Rating 1 out of 5]

In some way just an overview of the tools, with a little dive into queries. For me was just a waste of time

[Matt · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got about 13% in and had to stop reading this book. Because of the amount of useless filler, I found I'm not getting what I want from it. For example, here's a passage:

An index is a container that stores and manages documents of a single type in Elasticsearch. We will look at type in the next section. An index can contain documents of a single Type, as depicted in the following diagram: (diagram)

An index is a logical container of a type. Some configuration parameters are defined at the index level, while other configuration parameters are defined at the type level, as we will see later in this chapter.

All of that could be written succinctly as "An index contains documents of a single type. Later, we will discuss how both index and type can configured."

I get the feeling that the author is knowledgeable about the subject, and both he and the editor really tried to create a clear, comprehensive book about these tools, but it made the book into a long, choppy string of powerpoint bullet points.

[Maryam · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read a few chapters and they were well explained for beginners I actually learned a lot from the book about the structure, benefits and usage of Elastic Search , although there were some points which needed further explanation but I liked how it referenced the documentation, however I'm planning on going back to read the chapters I skipped when I need to

[Karthik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick and distilled with just enough information to get you going and be productive on the new ELK stack. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in this topic.

I wanted to brush-up my knowledge and see what is new. I got what I wanted.

[Agus · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn’t have time to do learn ES on my own. This guide has all the relevant stuff to get ES up a running and understanding the basics and tricky parts. It helped me with my Final Degree Thesis.