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

Summary

Anomaly detection jobs are certainly useful on their own, but when combined with near real-time alerting, users can really harness the power of automated analysis – while also being confident about getting only alerts that are meaningful.

After a practical study of how to effectively capture the results of anomaly detection jobs with real-time alerts, we went through a comprehensive example of using the new Kibana alerting framework to easily define some intuitive alerts and we tested them with a realistic alerting scenario. We then witnessed how an expert user can leverage the full power of Watcher for advanced alerting techniques if Kibana alerting cannot satisfy the complex alerting requirements.

In the next chapter, we'll see how anomaly detection jobs can assist not only with alerting on important key performance indicators but also how Elastic ML's automated analysis of a broad set of data within a specific application context is the means to achieving...