Learning Elastic Stack 7.0 (2 ed)

The Elastic Stack is a powerful suite of tools designed for distributed search, analytics, logging, and data visualization. With Elastic Stack 7.0, you gain access to new features and capabilities that unlock unique insights from your data. This book provides a solid foundation in the stack and teaches you how to leverage it efficiently to build robust, real-time data processing applications.

The early chapters guide you through setting up the stack, installing the tools, and exploring basic configurations. You’ll then dive into Elasticsearch for distributed search and analytics, Logstash for logging, and Kibana for interactive data visualization. As you progress, you’ll learn to create custom plugins with Kibana and Beats, and explore Elastic X-Pack, an extension that adds advanced security and monitoring capabilities. The book also offers practical guidance on using Elastic Cloud and deploying Elastic Stack in production environments.

By the end of this book, you’ll have a thorough understanding of the core Elastic Stack functionalities and the role of each component in solving complex data processing challenges.

What You Will Learn:

• Install and configure a full Elasticsearch architecture
• Solve full-text search problems with Elasticsearch
• Unlock powerful analytics using aggregations in Elasticsearch
• Build data pipelines to transfer information from multiple sources into Elasticsearch for analysis
• Create interactive dashboards with Kibana to tell compelling stories with your data
• Secure, monitor, and utilize Elastic Stack’s alerting and reporting capabilities
• Deploy applications to production environments, both on-premises and in the cloud, using Elastic Stack