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Elastic Stack 8.x Cookbook

You're reading from   Elastic Stack 8.x Cookbook Over 80 recipes to perform ingestion, search, visualization, and monitoring for actionable insights

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837634293
Length 688 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yazid Akadiri Yazid Akadiri
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Huage Chen Huage Chen
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started – Installing the Elastic Stack 2. Chapter 2: Ingesting General Content Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Building Search Applications 4. Chapter 4: Timestamped Data Ingestion 5. Chapter 5: Transform Data 6. Chapter 6: Visualize and Explore Data 7. Chapter 7: Alerting and Anomaly Detection 8. Chapter 8: Advanced Data Analysis and Processing 9. Chapter 9: Vector Search and Generative AI Integration 10. Chapter 10: Elastic Observability Solution 11. Chapter 11: Managing Access Control 12. Chapter 12: Elastic Stack Operation 13. Chapter 13: Elastic Stack Monitoring 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Timestamped Data Ingestion

The Elastic Stack provides many ways for ingesting timestamped data. In this chapter, we’re going to focus on two of them: Elastic Agent and Beats. Elastic Agent acts as an integrated solution for monitoring a variety of data types on each host, including logs and metrics. It additionally safeguards hosts against security risks and enables querying of operating system data. Elastic Agent can also be centrally managed by leveraging Fleet. Meanwhile, Beats have been around for a long time and are lightweight data shippers that transmit operational data to Elasticsearch. Depending on what data you want to collect, you may need to install multiple Beats shippers on a single host.

Figure 4.1 presents a decision tree to help you select the optimal ingestion strategy:

Figure 4.1 – Ingestion strategy decision tree

Figure 4.1 – Ingestion strategy decision tree

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following recipes:

  • Deploying Elastic Agent with...
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