First End-to-End example

One of the most common pieces of feedback from people new to Elastic Stack is the amount of detail you need to understand in order to get started. To get the first usable record in the Elastic Stack, the user needs to build a cluster, allocate master and data nodes, ingest the data, create the index, and manage it via the web or command line interface. Over the years, Elastic Stack has simplified the installation process, improved its documentation, and created sample datasets for new users to get familiar with the tools before using the stack in production.

Before we dig deeper into the different components of the Elastic Stack, it is helpful to look at an example that spans across Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana. By going over this end-to-end example, we will become familiar with the function that each component provides. When we look at each component in more detail later in the chapter, we will be able to compartmentalize where the particular component...