Preface
Even structured data is useless if it can’t help you to take strategic decisions and improve existing system. If you love to play with data, or your job requires you to process custom log formats, design a scalable analysis system, and manage logs to do real-time data analysis, this book is your one-stop solution. By combining the massively popular Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats and Kibana, ELK Stack has advanced to Elastic Stack that delivers actionable insights in near real time from almost any type of structured or unstructured data.
This book brushes up your basic knowledge of implementing the Elastic Stack and then dives deeper into complex and advanced scenarios. We’ll help you with data analytics challenges and take you through practical scenario of an intranet portal to understand utilization of Elastic Stack components. You will be able to grasp advanced techniques for log analysis and visualization. Newly announced features such as Beats and X-Pack are also covered in detail with examples.
Toward the end, you will see how to use the Elastic stack for real-world case studies and we’ll show you some best practices and troubleshooting techniques for the Elastic Stack.