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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

Moving beyond KPIs

The process of selecting KPIs, in general, should be relatively easy, as it is likely obvious what metrics are the best indicators (if online sales are down, then the application is likely not working). But if we want to get a more holistic view of what may be contributing to an operational problem, we must expand our analysis beyond the KPIs to indicators that emanate from the underlying systems and technology that support the application.

Fortunately, there are a plethora of ways to collect all kinds of data for centralization in the Elastic Stack. The Elastic Agent, for example, is a single, unified agent that you can deploy to hosts or containers to collect data and send it to the Elastic Stack. Behind the scenes, the Elastic Agent runs the Beats shippers or Elastic Endpoint required for your configuration. Starting from version 7.11, the Elastic Agent is managed in Kibana in the Fleet user interface and can be used to add and manage integrations for popular...