You're reading from Getting Started with Elastic Stack 8.0 Run powerful and scalable data platforms to search, observe, and secure your organization

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569492

Length 474 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Elasticsearch

Concepts

Enterprise Search

Author (1):

Asjad Athick

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Core Components

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Elastic Stack FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Installing and Running the Elastic Stack

4. Section 2: Working with the Elastic Stack

5. Chapter 3: Indexing and Searching for Data

6. Chapter 4: Leveraging Insights and Managing Data on Elasticsearch

7. Chapter 5: Running Machine Learning Jobs on Elasticsearch

8. Chapter 6: Collecting and Shipping Data with Beats

9. Chapter 7: Using Logstash to Extract, Transform, and Load Data

10. Chapter 8: Interacting with Your Data on Kibana

11. Chapter 9: Managing Data Onboarding with Elastic Agent

12. Section 3: Building Solutions with the Elastic Stack

13. Chapter 10: Building Search Experiences Using the Elastic Stack

14. Chapter 11: Observing Applications and Infrastructure Using the Elastic Stack

15. Chapter 12: Security Threat Detection and Response Using the Elastic Stack

16. Chapter 13: Architecting Workloads on the Elastic Stack

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Manual installation of the stack

Elastic Stack components can be run on both Linux and Windows environments easily. The components are run as standalone products and do not offer any type of orchestration or automation capabilities. We will focus on Linux environments in this book; instructions for Windows-based environments can be found on the Elasticsearch reference guide:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.0/zip-windows.html

In order to complete the setup of the lab Elasticsearch cluster, please complete both the installation and configuration steps for your operating system/installation method of choice.

Elastic Stack components are often installed on dedicated hosts/machines depending on architecture, resource, and performance requirements. This chapter looks at installation while Chapter 13, Architecting Workloads on the Elastic Stack, delves into the architectural considerations around each component.

Elastic Stack components support various...