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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

Exploring Elastic Team Beats

As we already covered the different types of beats provided by the Elastic Team, in this section, we will explore those beats and understand their features, learn how to set them up, and how to configure the beats with the various configuration options as provided. This section will provide you with all the necessary information you will need for understanding beats in detail.

Understanding Filebeat

As discussed, Filebeat is an open source log shipping agent that has been inspired by the Logstash-forwarder project, and it's based on the Logstash-forwarder source code. Filebeat is used for monitoring logs (files or directories) and forwards those logs to either Logstash, for further processing, or to Elasticsearch, for data indexing.

Let's understand how Filebeat works with the help of its architecture, as displayed below:

Understanding Filebeat

Link: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/5.1/filebeat-overview.html

In the preceding image, there are a lot of new terms...

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