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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

Demystifying the term ''AIOps''

We learned in Chapter 1, Machine Learning for IT, that many companies are drowning in an ever-increasing cascade of IT data while simultaneously being asked to ''do more with less'' (fewer people, fewer costs, and so on). Some of that data is collected and/or stored in specialized tools, but some may be collected in general-purpose data platforms such as the Elastic Stack. But the question still remains: what percentage of that data is being paid attention to? By this, we mean the percentage of collected data that is actively inspected by humans or being watched by some type of automated means (defined alarms based on rules, thresholds, and so on). Even generous estimates might put the percentage in the range of single digits. So, with 90% or more data being collected going unwatched, what's being missed? The proper answer might be that we don't actually know.

Before we admonish IT organizations for...