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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 the visualize interface


Visualization is the heart of Kibana and it is one of the sole reasons behind the creation of Kibana to provide users the capability to visualize large volumes of data. As the adoption of Elasticsearch and Logstash was increasing day by day, the ability to directly visualize data stored in Elasticsearch was missing and users were unable to make sense of the data. Then came the savior, Kibana, which solved the problem and provided a simple yet intuitive interface. It solved the challenge of visualizing huge volumes of data in near real time. It is the core component that makes Kibana a functionally rich open source software.

The Visualize page helps to visualize all the data that has been stored in Elasticsearch. After understanding the data using the Discover page, the Visualize page takes it a step further and provides the ability to build visualizations with ease. Visualizations help to understand the data instead of going through tons of raw data, which...