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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

You're reading from   Learning Elastic Stack 6.0 A beginner's guide to distributed search, analytics, and visualization using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281868
Length 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sharath Kumar Sharath Kumar
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Pranav Shukla Pranav Shukla
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Preface 1. Introducing Elastic Stack FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Elasticsearch 3. Searching-What is Relevant 4. Analytics with Elasticsearch 5. Analyzing Log Data 6. Building Data Pipelines with Logstash 7. Visualizing data with Kibana 8. Elastic X-Pack 9. Running Elastic Stack in Production 10. Building a Sensor Data Analytics Application 11. Monitoring Server Infrastructure

Hosting Elastic Stack on your own


Hosting Elastic Stack on your own, that is, self-hosting Elastic Stack, requires you to install, configure, and manage your Elasticsearch and other Elastic Stack products. This can be done in one of two ways:

  • Self-hosting on-premise
  • Self-hosting on a cloud

Regardless of whether you run Elastic Stack on-premise (in your own data center) or run it on one of the cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, or GCE, there are some common aspects that you should take into consideration. While self-hosting, you will be faced with the following choices:

  • Selecting hardware
  • Selecting the operating system
  • Configuring Elasticsearch nodes
  • Managing and monitoring Elasticsearch nodes
  • Special considerations while self-hosting on a cloud

Except for the last item, which is applicable only if you are self-hosting on a cloud, the others are equally applicable for cloud as well as on-premise deployments.

Selecting hardware

Elasticsearch primarily has memory-bound tasks which rely on the inverted...

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