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Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack
Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack

Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack: Expert techniques to integrate machine learning with distributed search and analytics

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Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack

Installing the Elastic Stack with Machine Learning

In Chapter 1, Machine Learning for IT, we learned what anomaly detection for IT is by looking at the fundamental steps behind the theory. Most importantly, we learned that, thanks to the Elastic Stack, Elastic machine learning (ML) allows us to operationalize anomaly detection, from analysis to visualization. Now, in this chapter, we'll roll up our sleeves and get to work installing the entire Elastic Stack. By doing so, we'll have a better understanding of the anatomy of Elastic ML. In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Installing Elasticsearch
  • Installing Kibana
  • Enabling ML features
  • Elastic ML features

Installing the Elastic Stack

Installing the Elastic Stack is a pretty straightforward process. We first need to download and install Elasticsearch and Kibana. Once installed, there are a few configurations that are necessary to fully enable Elastic ML.

Downloading the software

The Elastic software can be downloaded from https://elastic.co/guide. In this book, we'll use version 6.5, which is the latest version at the time of writing. Obviously, it is possible that a more recent version may exist by the time you are reading this book—keep that in mind. Software can change quickly!

To download Elasticsearch, browse https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch, and choose the appropriate download distribution. Do...

A guided tour of Elastic ML features

Now that we have Elastic ML enabled, we will use the remainder of this chapter to take a cursory overview of ML capabilities by using the data collected by Metricbeat (which collects and ships system performance metrics to Elasticsearch) as a mechanism to help us manifest some use cases. We will create a variety of ML analysis jobs via the Kibana plugin for ML, and will also learn how to interact with ML via its API.

Getting data for analysis

ML is not very exciting without data in Elasticsearch to analyze. So, let's get some using Metricbeat! Metricbeat is easy to install and configure. It serves as a great source of raw telemetry data that is perfect for ML. Follow along—we...

Summary

At this point, you should have installed Elastic ML and have a decent understanding of how to use it to analyze data in real time in Elasticsearch. In the next chapter, Chapter 3, Event Change Detection you will start learning additional ways to effectively use ML to solve a variety of new use cases.

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Key benefits

  • Combine machine learning with the analytic capabilities of Elastic Stack
  • Analyze large volumes of search data and gain actionable insight from them
  • Use external analytical tools with your Elastic Stack to improve its performance

Description

Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack is a comprehensive overview of the embedded commercial features of anomaly detection and forecasting. The book starts with installing and setting up Elastic Stack. You will perform time series analysis on varied kinds of data, such as log files, network flows, application metrics, and financial data. As you progress through the chapters, you will deploy machine learning within the Elastic Stack for logging, security, and metrics. In the concluding chapters, you will see how machine learning jobs can be automatically distributed and managed across the Elasticsearch cluster and made resilient to failure. By the end of this book, you will understand the performance aspects of incorporating machine learning within the Elastic ecosystem and create anomaly detection jobs and view results from Kibana directly.

Who is this book for?

If you are a data professional eager to gain insight on Elasticsearch data without having to rely on a machine learning specialist or custom development, Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack is for you. Those looking to integrate machine learning within their search and analytics applications will also find this book very useful. Prior experience with the Elastic Stack is needed to get the most out of this book.

What you will learn

  • Install the Elastic Stack to use machine learning features
  • Understand how Elastic machine learning is used to detect a variety of anomaly types
  • Apply effective anomaly detection to IT operations and security analytics
  • Leverage the output of Elastic machine learning in custom views, dashboards, and proactive alerting
  • Combine your created jobs to correlate anomalies of different layers of infrastructure
  • Learn various tips and tricks to get the most out of Elastic machine learning

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Table of Contents

11 Chapters
Machine Learning for IT Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Installing the Elastic Stack with Machine Learning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Event Change Detection Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
IT Operational Analytics and Root Cause Analysis Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Security Analytics with Elastic Machine Learning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Alerting on ML Analysis Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Elastic ML Data in Kibana Dashboards Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Elastic ML with Kibana Canvas Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Forecasting Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
ML Tips and Tricks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Jim Avazpour Feb 25, 2019
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Excellent book on Elastic Stack Machine Learning. A lot of good examples and material to get you started and gaining valuable insight on your data. An invaluable resource for any Elastic shop.
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A. Norris Mar 18, 2019
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This is a unique resource for Elastic search users. It focuses on the important evolution of the machine learning technology in Elastic search with true life examples. Reading this book is like having a one-on-one conversation with an expert in the field. Take your time to enjoy this as a knowledge resource or use it as a reference book; either way worth its weight in gold. Read this book and you too can be a machine learning rock star on the Elastic search platform.
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Colbert Philippe Jul 16, 2019
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Excellent academic book for the Machine Learning practitioner! It's exactly what I was looking for. ElasticSearch is becoming a general tool for searching through data, like data in a AI system. The more sophisticated a search is, the more it approaches AI. This book shows how to extend ElasticSearch to make it do AI like searches.
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Jeff Vestal May 19, 2019
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There are a lot of machine learning books and resources floating around. But there are no other books written by an Elastic expert able to deliver you from ML newbie to ML expert in to span of several pages.If you are looking for a rundown on what ML is , how to utilize Elastic ML in your environment, and how Machine Learning can move your machine learning from static to intelligent, this is the book for you.
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Well written book and help me understand machine learning.
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