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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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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

Understanding Profiler

Profiler is another X-Pack component which has grown out of requirement of understanding how a request performs in Elasticsearch. It provides us with detailed information of how the request has been executed at various stages of the request as sent which can be useful to find why your requests are being served slowly or what causes the requests to return results after a long time.

It is the latest addition to X-Pack and has been introduced in X-Pack version 5.1 itself. It is part of the Dev Tools Page. It utilizes the Profile API which is provided by Elasticsearch. Profile API is used to debug the various information of a request to gather underlying details of how request was served and how result was received. The resulting information of Profile API is a large chunk of JSON which is difficult to understand and make sense of. Therefore, Profiler plays an important part of providing the results of Profile API in form of a visualization which makes it easier to understand...

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