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Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack

By : Rich Collier, Bahaaldine Azarmi
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Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack

By: Rich Collier, Bahaaldine Azarmi

Overview of this book

Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack is a comprehensive overview of the embedded commercial features of anomaly detection and forecasting. The book starts with installing and setting up Elastic Stack. You will perform time series analysis on varied kinds of data, such as log files, network flows, application metrics, and financial data. As you progress through the chapters, you will deploy machine learning within the Elastic Stack for logging, security, and metrics. In the concluding chapters, you will see how machine learning jobs can be automatically distributed and managed across the Elasticsearch cluster and made resilient to failure. By the end of this book, you will understand the performance aspects of incorporating machine learning within the Elastic ecosystem and create anomaly detection jobs and view results from Kibana directly.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Alerting on ML Analysis

Throughout this book, we have seen that ML is very powerful, flexible, and useful for determining and highlighting unexpected events and entities that exist in massive datasets. However, the real value of the technology is often its ability to uncover these insights in near-real time, thus making those insights proactive and actionable. In this chapter, we'll discuss how to effectively integrate ML with Alerting (that is, Watcher). To do this, we will cover the following topics:

  • Getting an understanding of how ML's results are published to the results indices
  • Review how the default watch for an ML job works
  • Learn how to create a custom watch for advanced functionality

This chapter, however, will not be an extensive overview of Alerting (Watcher). To find out more information about Watcher and its functionality and capabilities, please refer...