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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

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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
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Section 2 – Time Series Analysis – Anomaly Detection and Forecasting
11
Section 3 – Data Frame Analysis

Results API

If programmatic access to the results is your thing, in addition to querying the results indices directly, you could opt to instead query Elastic ML's results API. Some parts of the API are redundant to what we've already explored, and some parts are unique. We will now check them out in the upcoming sections.

Results API endpoints

There are five different results API endpoints available:

  • Get buckets
  • Get influencers
  • Get records
  • Get overall buckets
  • Get categories

The first three API endpoints give results that are redundant in light of what we've already covered in this chapter by way of querying the results index directly (through Kibana or using the Elasticsearch _search API), and that method actually allows more flexibility, so we really won't bother discussing them here. However, the last two API endpoints are novel, and each deserves an explanation.

Getting the overall buckets API

The overall buckets API...