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Learning the Elastic Stack

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Get started with the Elastic Stack (formerly known as the ELK Stack). Learn how to work with Kibana and the other core components of the stack.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Start listening to your infrastructure
  • What you should know
1. The Elastic Stack
  • What the stack can do
  • Overview of the Elastic Stack components
  • Set up your learning sandbox
  • Deploying Kibana
  • Configuring Logstash
  • View data in Kibana
2. Working with Logstash
  • Working with Logstash
  • Logstash plugins
  • Parsing with Logstash filters
  • Explore GrokConstructor
  • Building Grok filters
  • Challenge: Interactive Logstash
  • Solution: Interactive Logstash
3. Using Beats
  • Lighter log ingestions with Beats
  • Spin up a noisy web server
  • Set up Filebeat
  • Get logs into Elasticsearch
  • Challenge: Install Metricbeat
  • Solution: Install Metricbeat
4. Working with Kibana
  • Get started with the Kibana search UI
  • Kibana Query Language basics
  • Visualizations
  • Dashboards
  • Challenge: Expand the dashboard
  • Solution: Expand the dashboard
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Josh Samuelson

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4.7 rating at LinkedIn Learning based on 182 ratings

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