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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

Chapter 7. Customizing Elastic Stack

One point to check whether a tool is great, is to find the answer of the following question: how much can it be customized? If you are selling your product, and if you have answer to that question like - Yes, and these are the ways. You already sold the product. This is an era of open source products, and level of customization of the product, plays a major role in deciding whether a product should be utilized for our requirement or not. There are many things your buyer would want to do with your setup, such as writing custom plugins, modifying existing things in product, modifying the UI for your branding, and much more.

In this chapter, we will learn how to customize the Elastic Stack by extending or modifying the components. The following is a list of topics that we will capture in this chapter:

  • Extending Elasticsearch
  • Extending Logstash
  • Extending Beats
  • Extending Kibana
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