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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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Authors (2):
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Ravi Kumar Gupta Ravi Kumar Gupta
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Ravi Kumar Gupta
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

Summary

In the chapter, we learned about Logstash, its need and its features. We covered the basics of Logstash Flow and the structure of the Logstash Configuration. Later we explored in detail the various types of plugins available along with the settings of few of the plugins were explained in detail. We also covered the Plugin Command Line Arguments along with Logstash Command Line Options. It was followed by Logstash tips and tricks and also, covered the example of application logs which had Tomcat and Catalina logs and we discovered how to create/run a Logstash Configuration file to perform ETL operations on the logs. At the end of the chapter, we had a look at the various monitoring APIs exposed to end-user to get relevant information of Logstash which was earlier appeared like a black box full of secret.

In the next chapter, we will learn about Kibana, its features and will explore the various interfaces provided by Kibana in detail.

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