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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

Elasticsearch plugins

As learned in Chapter 7, Customizing Elastic Stack, under the Extending Elasticsearch section, earlier versions (before 5.x) of Elasticsearch offered a number of plugins and these plugins were divided into three types - Java, Site, and Mixed plugins. Now Site and Mixed plugins are deprecated and only Java plugins are supported. These Java plugins must be installed on every node and contain only JAR files. Chapter 7, Customizing Elastic Stack, also talks about Elasticsearch plugins.

Elastic.co categorizes plugins as core plugins, which are developed and maintained officially, and community plugins, which are developed and maintained by a community. To utilize these plugins, we need to install into Elasticsearch by using the Elasticsearch-plugin utility. Core plugins are released with Elasticsearch, and share the same version as Elasticsearch.

In this section, we will get familiar with a few of the interesting plugins. Core plugins can be installed just by using the name...

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