Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
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.

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460011
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Arrow right icon
Authors (2):
Arrow left icon
Ravi Kumar Gupta Ravi Kumar Gupta
Author Profile Icon Ravi Kumar Gupta
Ravi Kumar Gupta
Yuvraj Gupta Yuvraj Gupta
Author Profile Icon Yuvraj Gupta
Yuvraj Gupta
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

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

Setting things up

Just like any other scenario, we need to set up Elasticsearch, Logstash or Beats or both, and Kibana for visualization. We would need something specific to capture data from meetups. Tricky thing is to decide whether we go for Logstash or Beats or a combination of both.

There was an input plugin developed for Logstash, which could read data for meetups, but that is not enough for us since we want to read more data and we need to go for another option. There is no beat available to capture the data from meetup as well.

The existing plugin is available at https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-meetup/. Elastic site has also documented this plugin at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.1/plugins-inputs-meetup.html. This plugin captures meetup

events using either

  • venue_id: Multiple IDs can be provided, separated by commas
  • group_id: Multiple IDs can be provided, separated by commas
  • group_urlname: Path to group from meetup.com

The restriction this...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €18.99/month. Cancel anytime