Features of X-Pack

In this section, we will discuss the main features of X-Pack. The main feature, which we will discuss first, is monitoring (from the introduction section), where we will discuss how to monitor Elasticsearch and Kibana. Then, we will discuss the security feature of X-Pack using which we can create users and roles, and based on the assigned roles, a user can access different sections of Kibana. Machine learning is a very prominent feature of X-Pack, which was introduced in Version 5.4 of Kibana. Machine learning in Kibana uses algorithms and methods on data to get the data-driven predictions, decision making, and modeling. We will also discuss APM, which is built on top of Elastic Stack, to monitor the performance of external applications. The next important feature is logging, which is used to ingest logs from different data sources. Metrics is another important feature, using which we can fetch metrics data from the operating system and run services on the server. So,...