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Mastering Elastic Stack

You're reading from   Mastering Elastic Stack Dive into data analysis with a pursuit of mastering ELK Stack on real-world scenarios.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460011
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ravi Kumar Gupta Ravi Kumar Gupta
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Yuvraj Gupta Yuvraj Gupta
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Elastic Stack Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. Stepping into Elasticsearch 3. Exploring Logstash and Its Plugins 4. Kibana Interface 5. Using Beats 6. Elastic Stack in Action 7. Customizing Elastic Stack 8. Elasticsearch APIs 9. X-Pack: Security and Monitoring 10. X-Pack: Alerting, Graph, and Reporting 11. Best Practices 12. Case Study-Meetup

Installation of X-Pack

To install X-Pack, you need to have installed Elasticsearch 5.0 and Kibana 5.0 onwards. Also, you must run the version of X-Pack that matches the version of Elastic Stack that you are running.

For the installation of Elasticsearch, you can refer to the Installation of Elasticsearch section in Chapter 1 , Overview of the Stack. For the installation of Kibana, you can refer to the Installation of Kibana section in Chapter 1 , Overview of the Stack. X-Pack will be installed in both Elasticsearch and Kibana, for which the Elasticsearch plugin and Kibana plugin will be used.

Installing X-Pack in Elasticsearch

In order to install X-Pack in Elasticsearch, refer to the following steps:

  1. Install X-Pack while running the following command from the Elasticsearch installation directory - bin/elasticsearch-plugin install x-pack.

    Note

    Run the installation as a superuser if you are using DEB/RPM distributions.

    During installation, it will ask you to grant extra permissions to X-Pack,...

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