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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

By : Pranav Shukla, Sharath Kumar M N
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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

By: Pranav Shukla, Sharath Kumar M N

Overview of this book

The Elastic Stack is a powerful combination of tools for distributed search, analytics, logging, and visualization of data from medium to massive data sets. The newly released Elastic Stack 6.0 brings new features and capabilities that empower users to find unique, actionable insights through these techniques. This book will give you a fundamental understanding of what the stack is all about, and how to use it efficiently to build powerful real-time data processing applications. After a quick overview of the newly introduced features in Elastic Stack 6.0, you’ll learn how to set up the stack by installing the tools, and see their basic configurations. Then it shows you how to use Elasticsearch for distributed searching and analytics, along with Logstash for logging, and Kibana for data visualization. It also demonstrates the creation of custom plugins using Kibana and Beats. You’ll find out about Elastic X-Pack, a useful extension for effective security and monitoring. We also provide useful tips on how to use the Elastic Cloud and deploy the Elastic Stack in production environments. On completing this book, you’ll have a solid foundational knowledge of the basic Elastic Stack functionalities. You’ll also have a good understanding of the role of each component in the stack to solve different data processing problems.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about the essential Kibana Console UI and curl commands to interact with Elasticsearch with the REST API. Then we looked at the core concepts of Elasticsearch. We performed customary CRUD operations that are required as support for any data store. We took a closer look at how to create indexes, and how to create and manage mappings. We ended the chapter with an overview of the REST API in Elasticsearch, and the common conventions used in most APIs.

In the next chapter, we will take a deep dive into the search capabilities of Elasticsearch to understand the maximum benefits of Elasticsearch as a search engine.