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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

Custom dashboards and Canvas workpads

It's clear that now that we know the ins and outs of the results index, which stores all the goodness that comes out of Elastic ML's anomaly detection and forecast analytics, our imagination is the limit concerning how we can then express those results in a way that is meaningful for our own goals. This section will briefly explore some of the concepts and ideas that you can use to bring Elastic ML's results to a big screen near you!

Dashboard "embeddables"

One recent addition to the capabilities of Elastic ML is the ability to embed the Anomaly Explorer timeline ("swim lanes") into existing custom dashboards. To accomplish this, simply click the "three dots" menu at the top right of the Anomaly timeline and select the Add to dashboard option:

Figure 5.30 – Adding the Anomaly timeline to another dashboard

At this point, select which part of the swim lane views you...