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| Author | : James Turnbull |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2014-12-22 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0988820226 |
A new book designed for SysAdmins, Operations staff, Developers and DevOps who are interested in deploying a log management solution using the open source tool Logstash. In this book we will walk you through installing, deploying, managing and extending Logstash. We'll teach you how to: * Install and deploy Logstash. * Ship events from a Logstash Shipper to a central Logstash server. * Filter incoming events using a variety of techniques. * Output those events to a selection of useful destinations. * Use Logstash's awesome web interface Kibana. * Scale out your Logstash implementation as your environment grows. * Quickly and easily extend Logstash to deliver additional functionality you might need. By the end of the book you should have a functional and effective log management solution that you can deploy into your own environment.
| Author | : Saurabh Chhajed |
| Publisher | : Packt Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2015-11-26 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1785886703 |
Build mesmerizing visualizations, analytics, and logs from your data using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana About This Book Solve all your data analytics problems with the ELK stack Explore the power of Kibana4 search and visualizations built over Elasticsearch queries and learn about the features and plugins of Logstash Develop a complete data pipeline using the ELK stack Who This Book Is For If you are a developer or DevOps engineer interested in building a system that provides amazing insights and business metrics out of data sources, of various formats and types, using the open source technology stack that ELK provides, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Unix or any programming language will be helpful to make the most out of this book. What You Will Learn Install, configure, and run Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana Understand the need for log analytics and the current challenges in log analysis Build your own data pipeline using the ELK stack Familiarize yourself with the key features of Logstash and the variety of input, filter, and output plugins it provides Build your own custom Logstash plugin Create actionable insights using charts, histograms, and quick search features in Kibana4 Understand the role of Elasticsearch in the ELK stack In Detail The ELK stack—Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, is a powerful combination of open source tools. Elasticsearch is for deep search and data analytics. Logstash is for centralized logging, log enrichment, and parsing. Kibana is for powerful and beautiful data visualizations. In short, the Elasticsearch ELK stack makes searching and analyzing data easier than ever before. This book will introduce you to the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) stack, starting by showing you how to set up the stack by installing the tools, and basic configuration. You'll move on to building a basic data pipeline using the ELK stack. Next, you'll explore the key features of Logstash and its role in the ELK stack, including creating Logstash plugins, which will enable you to use your own customized plugins. The importance of Elasticsearch and Kibana in the ELK stack is also covered, along with various types of advanced data analysis, and a variety of charts, tables ,and maps. Finally, by the end of the book you will be able to develop full-fledged data pipeline using the ELK stack and have a solid understanding of the role of each of the components. Style and approach This book is a step-by-step guide, complete with various examples to solve your data analytics problems by using the ELK stack to explore and visualize data.
| Author | : Pranav Shukla |
| Publisher | : Packt Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 461 |
| Release | : 2019-05-31 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1789958539 |
A beginner's guide to storing, managing, and analyzing data with the updated features of Elastic 7.0 Key FeaturesGain access to new features and updates introduced in Elastic Stack 7.0Grasp the fundamentals of Elastic Stack including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and KibanaExplore useful tips for using Elastic Cloud and deploying Elastic Stack in production environmentsBook Description The Elastic Stack is a powerful combination of tools for techniques such as distributed search, analytics, logging, and visualization of data. Elastic Stack 7.0 encompasses new features and capabilities that will enable you to find unique insights into analytics using these techniques. This book will give you a fundamental understanding of what the stack is all about, and help you use it efficiently to build powerful real-time data processing applications. The first few sections of the book will help you understand how to set up the stack by installing tools, and exploring their basic configurations. You’ll then get up to speed with using Elasticsearch for distributed searching and analytics, Logstash for logging, and Kibana for data visualization. As you work through the book, you will discover the technique of creating custom plugins using Kibana and Beats. This is followed by coverage of the Elastic X-Pack, a useful extension for effective security and monitoring. You’ll also find helpful tips on how to use Elastic Cloud and deploy Elastic Stack in production environments. By the end of this book, you’ll be well versed with the fundamental Elastic Stack functionalities and the role of each component in the stack to solve different data processing problems. What you will learnInstall and configure an Elasticsearch architectureSolve the full-text search problem with ElasticsearchDiscover powerful analytics capabilities through aggregations using ElasticsearchBuild a data pipeline to transfer data from a variety of sources into Elasticsearch for analysisCreate interactive dashboards for effective storytelling with your data using KibanaLearn how to secure, monitor and use Elastic Stack’s alerting and reporting capabilitiesTake applications to an on-premise or cloud-based production environment with Elastic StackWho this book is for This book is for entry-level data professionals, software engineers, e-commerce developers, and full-stack developers who want to learn about Elastic Stack and how the real-time processing and search engine works for business analytics and enterprise search applications. Previous experience with Elastic Stack is not required, however knowledge of data warehousing and database concepts will be helpful.
| Author | : Yuvraj Gupta |
| Publisher | : Packt Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 517 |
| Release | : 2017-02-28 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1786468050 |
Get the most out of the Elastic Stack for various complex analytics using this comprehensive and practical guide About This Book Your one-stop solution to perform advanced analytics with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana Learn how to make better sense of your data by searching, analyzing, and logging data in a systematic way This highly practical guide takes you through an advanced implementation on the ELK stack in your enterprise environment Who This Book Is For This book cater to developers using the Elastic stack in their day-to-day work who are familiar with the basics of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, and now want to become an expert at using the Elastic stack for data analytics. What You Will Learn Build a pipeline with help of Logstash and Beats to visualize Elasticsearch data in Kibana Use Beats to ship any type of data to the Elastic stack Understand Elasticsearch APIs, modules, and other advanced concepts Explore Logstash and it's plugins Discover how to utilize the new Kibana UI for advanced analytics See how to work with the Elastic Stack using other advanced configurations Customize the Elastic Stack and plugin development for each of the component Work with the Elastic Stack in a production environment Explore the various components of X-Pack in detail. In Detail Even structured data is useless if it can't help you to take strategic decisions and improve existing system. If you love to play with data, or your job requires you to process custom log formats, design a scalable analysis system, and manage logs to do real-time data analysis, this book is your one-stop solution. By combining the massively popular Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, and Kibana, elastic.co has advanced the end-to-end stack that delivers actionable insights in real time from almost any type of structured or unstructured data source. If your job requires you to process custom log formats, design a scalable analysis system, explore a variety of data, and manage logs, this book is your one-stop solution. You will learn how to create real-time dashboards and how to manage the life cycle of logs in detail through real-life scenarios. This book brushes up your basic knowledge on implementing the Elastic Stack and then dives deeper into complex and advanced implementations of the Elastic Stack. We'll help you to solve data analytics challenges using the Elastic Stack and provide practical steps on centralized logging and real-time analytics with the Elastic Stack in production. You will get to grip with advanced techniques for log analysis and visualization. Newly announced features such as Beats and X-Pack are also covered in detail with examples. Toward the end, you will see how to use the Elastic stack for real-world case studies and we'll show you some best practices and troubleshooting techniques for the Elastic Stack. Style and approach This practical guide shows you how to perform advanced analytics with the Elastic stack through real-world use cases. It includes common and some not so common scenarios to use the Elastic stack for data analysis.
| Author | : Kevin Schmidt |
| Publisher | : Newnes |
| Total Pages | : 463 |
| Release | : 2012-12-31 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1597496367 |
Logging and Log Management: The Authoritative Guide to Understanding the Concepts Surrounding Logging and Log Management introduces information technology professionals to the basic concepts of logging and log management. It provides tools and techniques to analyze log data and detect malicious activity. The book consists of 22 chapters that cover the basics of log data; log data sources; log storage technologies; a case study on how syslog-ng is deployed in a real environment for log collection; covert logging; planning and preparing for the analysis log data; simple analysis techniques; and tools and techniques for reviewing logs for potential problems. The book also discusses statistical analysis; log data mining; visualizing log data; logging laws and logging mistakes; open source and commercial toolsets for log data collection and analysis; log management procedures; and attacks against logging systems. In addition, the book addresses logging for programmers; logging and compliance with regulations and policies; planning for log analysis system deployment; cloud logging; and the future of log standards, logging, and log analysis. This book was written for anyone interested in learning more about logging and log management. These include systems administrators, junior security engineers, application developers, and managers. - Comprehensive coverage of log management including analysis, visualization, reporting and more - Includes information on different uses for logs -- from system operations to regulatory compliance - Features case Studies on syslog-ng and actual real-world situations where logs came in handy in incident response - Provides practical guidance in the areas of report, log analysis system selection, planning a log analysis system and log data normalization and correlation
| Author | : Clinton Gormley |
| Publisher | : "O'Reilly Media, Inc." |
| Total Pages | : 659 |
| Release | : 2015-01-23 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1449358500 |
Whether you need full-text search or real-time analytics of structured data—or both—the Elasticsearch distributed search engine is an ideal way to put your data to work. This practical guide not only shows you how to search, analyze, and explore data with Elasticsearch, but also helps you deal with the complexities of human language, geolocation, and relationships. If you’re a newcomer to both search and distributed systems, you’ll quickly learn how to integrate Elasticsearch into your application. More experienced users will pick up lots of advanced techniques. Throughout the book, you’ll follow a problem-based approach to learn why, when, and how to use Elasticsearch features. Understand how Elasticsearch interprets data in your documents Index and query your data to take advantage of search concepts such as relevance and word proximity Handle human language through the effective use of analyzers and queries Summarize and group data to show overall trends, with aggregations and analytics Use geo-points and geo-shapes—Elasticsearch’s approaches to geolocation Model your data to take advantage of Elasticsearch’s horizontal scalability Learn how to configure and monitor your cluster in production
| Author | : Anurag Srivastava |
| Publisher | : Packt Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2019-10-24 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1789801885 |
Get the most out of Elasticsearch 7’s new features to build, deploy, and manage efficient applications Key FeaturesDiscover the new features introduced in Elasticsearch 7Explore techniques for distributed search, indexing, and clusteringGain hands-on knowledge of implementing Elasticsearch for your enterpriseBook Description Elasticsearch is one of the most popular tools for distributed search and analytics. This Elasticsearch book highlights the latest features of Elasticsearch 7 and helps you understand how you can use them to build your own search applications with ease. Starting with an introduction to the Elastic Stack, this book will help you quickly get up to speed with using Elasticsearch. You'll learn how to install, configure, manage, secure, and deploy Elasticsearch clusters, as well as how to use your deployment to develop powerful search and analytics solutions. As you progress, you'll also understand how to troubleshoot any issues that you may encounter along the way. Finally, the book will help you explore the inner workings of Elasticsearch and gain insights into queries, analyzers, mappings, and aggregations as you learn to work with search results. By the end of this book, you'll have a basic understanding of how to build and deploy effective search and analytics solutions using Elasticsearch. What you will learnInstall Elasticsearch and use it to safely store data and retrieve it when neededWork with a variety of analyzers and filtersDiscover techniques to improve search results in ElasticsearchUnderstand how to perform metric and bucket aggregationsImplement best practices for moving clusters and applications to productionExplore various techniques to secure your Elasticsearch clustersWho this book is for This book is for software developers, engineers, data architects, system administrators, and anyone who wants to get up and running with Elasticsearch 7. No prior experience with Elasticsearch is required.
| Author | : Anurag Srivastava |
| Publisher | : Packt Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2018-07-31 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1788834038 |
Get to grips with Kibana and its advanced functions to create interactive visualizations and dashboards Key Features Explore visualizations and perform histograms, stats, and map analytics Unleash X-Pack and Timelion, and learn alerting, monitoring, and reporting features Manage dashboards with Beats and create machine learning jobs for faster analytics Book Description Kibana is one of the popular tools among data enthusiasts for slicing and dicing large datasets and uncovering Business Intelligence (BI) with the help of its rich and powerful visualizations. To begin with, Mastering Kibana 6.x quickly introduces you to the features of Kibana 6.x, before teaching you how to create smart dashboards in no time. You will explore metric analytics and graph exploration, followed by understanding how to quickly customize Kibana dashboards. In addition to this, you will learn advanced analytics such as maps, hits, and list analytics. All this will help you enhance your skills in running and comparing multiple queries and filters, influencing your data visualization skills at scale. With Kibana’s Timelion feature, you can analyze time series data with histograms and stats analytics. By the end of this book, you will have created a speedy machine learning job using X-Pack capabilities. What you will learn Create unique dashboards with various intuitive data visualizations Visualize Timelion expressions with added histograms and stats analytics Integrate X-Pack with your Elastic Stack in simple steps Extract data from Elasticsearch for advanced analysis and anomaly detection using dashboards Build dashboards from web applications for application logs Create monitoring and alerting dashboards using Beats Who this book is for Mastering Kibana 6.x is for you if you are a big data engineer, DevOps engineer, or data scientist aspiring to go beyond data visualization at scale and gain maximum insights from their large datasets. Basic knowledge of Elasticstack will be an added advantage, although not mandatory.
| Author | : James Turnbull |
| Publisher | : James Turnbull |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 2014-07-14 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 098882020X |
Updated for Docker Community Edition v18.09! Docker book designed for SysAdmins, SREs, Operations staff, Developers and DevOps who are interested in deploying the open source container service Docker. In this book, we'll walk you through installing, deploying, managing, and extending Docker. We're going to do that by first introducing you to the basics of Docker and its components. Then we'll start to use Docker to build containers and services to perform a variety of tasks. We're going to take you through the development lifecycle, from testing to production, and see where Docker fits in and how it can make your life easier. We'll make use of Docker to build test environments for new projects, demonstrate how to integrate Docker with continuous integration workflow, and then how to build application services and platforms. Finally, we'll show you how to use Docker's API and how to extend Docker yourself. We'll teach you how to: * Install Docker. * Take your first steps with a Docker container. * Build Docker images. * Manage and share Docker images. * Run and manage more complex Docker containers. * Deploy Docker containers as part of your testing pipeline. * Build multi-container applications and environments. * Learn about orchestration using Compose and Swarm for the orchestration of Docker containers and Consul for service discovery. * Explore the Docker API. * Getting Help and Extending Docker.
| Author | : Anurag Srivastava |
| Publisher | : Packt Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 165 |
| Release | : 2019-01-31 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1789808499 |
A quick start guide to visualize your Elasticsearch data Key FeaturesYour hands-on guide to visualizing the Elasticsearch data as well as navigating the Elastic stackWork with different Kibana plugins and create effective machine learning jobs using KibanaBuild effective dashboards and reports without any hassleBook Description The Elastic Stack is growing rapidly and, day by day, additional tools are being added to make it more effective. This book endeavors to explain all the important aspects of Kibana, which is essential for utilizing its full potential. This book covers the core concepts of Kibana, with chapters set out in a coherent manner so that readers can advance their learning in a step-by-step manner. The focus is on a practical approach, thereby enabling the reader to apply those examples in real time for a better understanding of the concepts and to provide them with the correct skills in relation to the tool. With its succinct explanations, it is quite easy for a reader to use this book as a reference guide for learning basic to advanced implementations of Kibana. The practical examples, such as the creation of Kibana dashboards from CSV data, application RDBMS data, system metrics data, log file data, APM agents, and search results, can provide readers with a number of different drop-off points from where they can fetch any type of data into Kibana for the purpose of analysis or dashboarding. What you will learnExplore how Logstash is configured to fetch CSV dataUnderstand how to create index patterns in KibanaBecome familiar with how to apply filters on dataDiscover how to create ML jobsExplore how to analyze APM data from APM agentsGet to grips with how to save, share, inspect, and edit visualizationsUnderstand how to find an anomaly in dataWho this book is for Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide is for developers new to Kibana who want to learn the fundamentals of using the tool for visualization, as well as existing Elastic developers.
