Preface

This book is aimed at introducing the building of your own ELK Stack data pipeline using the open source technologies stack of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. This book is also aimed at covering the core concepts of each of the components of the stack and quickly using them to build your own log analytics solutions. The book is divided into ten chapters. The first chapter helps you install all the components of the stack so that you can quickly build your first data pipeline in the second chapter. Chapter 3 to Chapter 7 introduce you to the capabilities of each of the components of the stack in detail. The eighth chapter builds a full data pipeline using ELK. The ninth chapter introduces you to some of the use cases of the ELK Stack in practice. Finally, the tenth chapter helps you know about some of the tools that can work with ELK Stack to enhance its capabilities.