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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

Exploring Community Beats


As Elastic Stack components are parts of an open source initiative, Beats have been embraced by the community, which is actively contributing to the creation of different types of Beats. There are many new beats being developed by the community that follow the Beats platform. Let us have a look at a community beat, explore it, set it up, and understand the configuration options provided for the beat.

Understanding Elasticbeat

This is a community-developed beat that provides simple yet useful functionalities. This beat provides Elasticsearch cluster related information. It provides statistics of elasticsearch clusters, elasticsearch nodes, and the health of elasticsearch nodes using the API. It requests various types of statistics from the elasticsearch cluster, which are exposed via the elasticsearch API.

Let's set up Elasticbeat in order to use it.

Installation of Elasticbeat

In this section, Elasticbeat will be installed, and this section covers installation on Ubuntu...

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