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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

Monitoring

Monitoring is another X-Pack component that has grown out of the requirement of having a UI to monitor the cluster, indices, and nodes present in Elasticsearch. It provides us with detailed statistics for each cluster, each of the indices present in the cluster, and for each of the nodes.

By making Monitoring incorporated in X-Pack, now you can access the Monitoring UI directly from Kibana, thereby eliminating the need to leave Kibana. Earlier, it was known as Marvel, which provided you with a UI to monitor and get statistics of clusters, nodes, and indices present in Elasticsearch. You can even see the performance of the Kibana instance that is running, which is an addition.

Monitoring consists of two sub-components: a monitoring agent and a monitoring application. The monitoring agent is to be installed on every node from which you want to fetch statistics, and collects the data and indices of the data in Elasticsearch on which data is visualized using the Monitoring dashboards...

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