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Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack - Second Edition

By : Rich Collier, Camilla Montonen, Bahaaldine Azarmi
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Book Image

Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Rich Collier, Camilla Montonen, Bahaaldine Azarmi

Overview of this book

Elastic Stack, previously known as the ELK stack, is a log analysis solution that helps users ingest, process, and analyze search data effectively. With the addition of machine learning, a key commercial feature, the Elastic Stack makes this process even more efficient. This updated second edition of Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack provides a comprehensive overview of Elastic Stack's machine learning features for both time series data analysis as well as for classification, regression, and outlier detection. The book starts by explaining machine learning concepts in an intuitive way. You'll then perform time series analysis on different types of data, such as log files, network flows, application metrics, and financial data. As you progress through the chapters, you'll deploy machine learning within Elastic Stack for logging, security, and metrics. Finally, you'll discover how data frame analysis opens up a whole new set of use cases that machine learning can help you with. By the end of this Elastic Stack book, you'll have hands-on machine learning and Elastic Stack experience, along with the knowledge you need to incorporate machine learning in your distributed search and data analysis platform.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Section 1 – Getting Started with Machine Learning with Elastic Stack
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Section 2 – Time Series Analysis – Anomaly Detection and Forecasting
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Section 3 – Data Frame Analysis

Anomaly detection in Elastic APM

Elastic APM takes application monitoring and performance management to a whole new level by allowing users to instrument their application code to get deep insights into the performance of individual microservices and transactions. In complex environments, this could generate a large number of measurements and poses a potentially paradoxical situation – one in which greater observability is obtained via this detailed level of measurement while possibly overwhelming the analyst who has to sift through the results for actionable insights.

Fortunately, Elastic APM and Elastic ML are a match made in heaven. Anomaly detection not only automatically adapts to the unique performance characteristics of each transaction type via unsupervised machine learning, but it can also scale to handle the possibly voluminous amounts of data that APM can generate.

While the user is always free to create anomaly detection jobs against any kind of time-series...