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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

Filebeat


Filebeat is an open source, lightweight log shipping agent that is installed as an agent to ship logs from local files. It monitors the log directories or specific log files, tails the files, and forwards them to Elasticsearch, Logstash, Redis, or Kafka. It is salable and provides the ability to ship logs from multiple systems to a centralized system/server, from which the logs can be parsed and processed.

Downloading and installing Filebeat

Navigate to https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat and, depending on your operating system, download the .zip/.tar file. The installation of Filebeat is simple and straightforward:

Note

Beats version 6.0.x is compatible with Elasticsearch 5.6.x and 6.0.x, and Logstash 5.6.x and 6.0.x. The compatibility matrix can be found at https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#matrix_compatibility. When you come across Elasticsearch and Logstash examples or usages with Beats in the chapter, make sure you have compatible versions of Elasticsearch and Logstash...

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