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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

Chapter 6: Alerting on ML Analysis

The previous chapter (Chapter 5, Interpreting Results) explained in depth how anomaly detection and forecasting results are stored in Elasticsearch indices. This gives us the proper background to now create proactive, actionable, and informative alerts on those results.

At the time of writing this book, we find ourselves at an inflection point. For several years, Elastic ML has relied on the alerting capabilities of Watcher (a component of Elasticsearch) as this was the exclusive mechanism to alert on data. However, a new platform of alerting has been designed as part of Kibana (and was deemed GA in v7.11) and this new approach will be the primary mechanism of alerting moving forward.

There are still some interesting pieces of functionality that Watcher can provide that are not yet available in Kibana alerting. As such, this chapter will showcase the usage of alerts using both Kibana alerting and Watcher. Depending on your needs, you can decide...