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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

Exploring Codec Plugins


Codec plugins are used to encode/decode the data. The input data can come in various formats, hence, to read and store the data of different formats, we use codec. Some of the codec plugins are as follows.

rubydebug

The rubydebug codec is a fairly simple plugin that outputs the data to the standard output of the shell, which prints the data using the Ruby Awesome Print library.

The basic configuration for rubydebug is as follows:

rubydebug { 
} 

In this plugin, no settings are mandatory. The additional configuration settings are as follows:

  • metadata: This is used to specify whether or not to include the metadata while printing the output to the shell.

The value type and default values for the settings are as follows:

Setting

Value type

Default value

metadata

Boolean

false

Configuration example:

codec {   
        rubydebug { metadata => true } 
      } 

json

The json codec plugin is a simple plugin which encodes or decodes the data...