Chapter 3: Introduction to the Elastic Stack
The Elastic Stack is a technology stack that is focused on, at its core, search – the ability to search through tremendous amounts of data and to perform analytics. These analytics can have multiple use cases, which are called solutions.
The Elastic Stack is the official name of the products offered by the company Elastic. Previously, these separate software titles were collectively referred to as the ELK Stack, which stood for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. The name was changed to the Elastic Stack as the company and projects focused on specific use cases, known as solutions.
In this chapter, we'll go through the following topics:
- Logstash
- Elasticsearch
- Beats and Agents
- Kibana
- Elastic solutions