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Mastering Elastic Stack

By : Ravi Kumar Gupta, Yuvraj Gupta
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Mastering Elastic Stack

By: Ravi Kumar Gupta, Yuvraj Gupta

Overview of this book

Even structured data is useless if it can’t help you to take strategic decisions and improve existing system. If you love to play with data, or your job requires you to process custom log formats, design a scalable analysis system, and manage logs to do real-time data analysis, this book is your one-stop solution. By combining the massively popular Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, and Kibana, elastic.co has advanced the end-to-end stack that delivers actionable insights in real time from almost any type of structured or unstructured data source. If your job requires you to process custom log formats, design a scalable analysis system, explore a variety of data, and manage logs, this book is your one-stop solution. You will learn how to create real-time dashboards and how to manage the life cycle of logs in detail through real-life scenarios. This book brushes up your basic knowledge on implementing the Elastic Stack and then dives deeper into complex and advanced implementations of the Elastic Stack. We’ll help you to solve data analytics challenges using the Elastic Stack and provide practical steps on centralized logging and real-time analytics with the Elastic Stack in production. You will get to grip with advanced techniques for log analysis and visualization. Newly announced features such as Beats and X-Pack are also covered in detail with examples. Toward the end, you will see how to use the Elastic stack for real-world case studies and we’ll show you some best practices and troubleshooting techniques for the Elastic Stack.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Elastic Stack
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Understanding meetup scenario


The world might be moving toward nuclear families, but the increasing number of meetups everyday shows that the humanity still needs and considers interactions with each other. A meetup is a gathering in which people meet and do stuff, share knowledge, and plan things of their common interest. This is backed by a software platform developed and provided by Meetup Inc. launched in June 2002. This platform is available at https://www.meetup.com/ and open for everyone to join and do meetups. You can get the idea of meetups popularity by the fact that there are more than 29 million users, 260k+ groups across 180+ countries with monthly meetups count just more than 450k on an average.

These meetups are not limited to technologies, and people do gather for trekking, hiking, traveling, environment-related and meditation-related reasons, and other causes. All of this gives us a fantastic opportunity to do a good analysis over meetups happening all over the world. Similar...