A beginner's guide to storing, managing, and analyzing data with the
updated features of Elastic 7.0
Key Features
- Gain access to new features and updates introduced in Elastic Stack
7.0
- Grasp the fundamentals of Elastic Stack including Elasticsearch,
Logstash, and Kibana
- Explore useful tips for using Elastic Cloud and deploying Elastic
Stack in production environments
Book Description
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
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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.
What you will learn
- Install and configure an Elasticsearch architecture
- Solve the full-text search problem with Elasticsearch
- Discover powerful analytics capabilities through aggregations using
Elasticsearch
- Build a data pipeline to transfer data from a variety of sources into
Elasticsearch for analysis
- Create interactive dashboards for effective storytelling with your
data using Kibana
- Learn how to secure, monitor and use Elastic Stack's alerting and
reporting capabilities
- Take applications to an on-premise or cloud-based production
environment with Elastic Stack
Who this book is for
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.
