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Mastering Elasticsearch 5.x

You're reading from   Mastering Elasticsearch 5.x Master the intricacies of Elasticsearch 5 and use it to create flexible and scalable search solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460189
Length 428 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Bharvi Dixit Bharvi Dixit
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Preface 1. Revisiting Elasticsearch and the Changes FREE CHAPTER 2. The Improved Query DSL 3. Beyond Full Text Search 4. Data Modeling and Analytics 5. Improving the User Search Experience 6. The Index Distribution Architecture 7. Low-Level Index Control 8. Elasticsearch Administration 9. Data Transformation and Federated Search 10. Improving Performance 11. Developing Elasticsearch Plugins 12. Introducing Elastic Stack 5.0

Introducing Logstash, Beats, and Kibana

We have already seen how to install and configure Elasticsearch. So, we are not going to repeat it again. We will proceed with learning three more components of Elastic Stack: Logstash, Beats, and Kibana.

Working with Logstash

Logstash is one of the most popular tools for collecting, parsing, and enriching log-based data (usually, data which has a timestamp associated with it) from multiple sources such as log files, databases, Twitter, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch, Apache Kafka, and many others. After processing and transforming the data through Logstash, you can send it to either Elasticsearch or many other data stores such as MongoDB, Amazon S3, and so on.

Logstash architecture

Logstash has plugin-based architecture. As shown in the following figure, there are three components of Logstash: Input, Filter, and Output:

Logstash architecture

There are hundreds of input, filter, and output ready-made open source plugins available to be used and the best part is if you do not...

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