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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)
1
Section 1 – Getting Started with Machine Learning with Elastic Stack
4
Section 2 – Time Series Analysis – Anomaly Detection and Forecasting
11
Section 3 – Data Frame Analysis

Anomaly detection in the Uptime app

The Uptime app allows simple availability and response time monitoring of services via a variety of network protocols, including HTTP/S, TCP, and ICMP:

  1. Often classified as synthetic monitoring, the Uptime app uses Heartbeat to actively probe network endpoints from one or more locations:

      

    Figure 8.25 – The Uptime app in Kibana

  2. If you would like to enable anomaly detection on a monitor, simply click on the monitor name to see the monitor detail. Within the Monitor duration panel, notice the Enable anomaly detection button:

      

    Figure 8.26 – Enabling anomaly detection for an Uptime monitor

  3. Clicking on the Enable anomaly detection button creates the job in the background and offers the user the option to create an alert for anomalies surfaced by the job:

      

    Figure 8.27 – Creating an alert on the anomaly detection job in the Uptime app

  4. Once the anomaly detection job is available, any anomalies...