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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

Understanding operationalization

At some point on your journey with using Elastic ML, it will be helpful to understand a number of key concepts regarding how Elastic ML is operationalized within the Elastic Stack. This includes information about how the analytics run on the cluster nodes and how data that is to be analyzed by ML is retrieved and processed.

Note

Some concepts in this section may not be intuitive until you actually start using Elastic ML on some real examples. Don't worry if you feel like you prefer to skim (or even skip) this section now and return to it later following some genuine experience of using Elastic ML.

ML nodes

First and foremost, since Elasticsearch is, by nature, a distributed multi-node solution, it is only natural that the ML feature of the Elastic Stack works as a native plugin that obeys many of the same operational concepts. As described in the documentation (elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-settings.html),...