Practical ELK Stack

Chapter 1: Introduction to ELK Stack Chapter Goal: This chapter emphasizes the importance of log analysis in today's big data crazy world. It would go on to analyze the challenges with log analysis. It presents ELK stack as a thorough solution for log analysis. Different components of ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana are introduced with a description of their functions and installation. No of pages: 25 Sub -Topics 1. Log Analysis in Today's World 2. The ELK Stack 3. ELK Data Pipeline 4. ELK Stack Installation"
Chapter 2: Shipping, Filtering and Parsing Events with Logstash Chapter Goal: The goal of this chapter is to get started with using Logstash for log generation, collection and filtering. It starts with introducing configuration settings of Logstash. It then goes on to illustrate how Logstash facilitates shipping of logs, filtering and transforming any type of data to a common format. This can further help in arriving at actionable insights. No of pages: 40 Sub - Topics 1. Configuring Logstash 2. Shipping Events 3. Filtering Events with Logstash 4. Outputting Events from Logstash"
< Chapter 3: Extending Logstash Chapter Goal: The goal of this chapter is to illustrate how Logstash is internally organized using Plugins. Logstash has a diverse collection of input, filter, codec and output plugins. An overview of the common plugins would be provided. It would then show how to create and use your own custom plugin. No of pages: 20 Sub - Topics: 1. Plugin Management 2. Structure of a Plugin 3. Adding custom plugins"
Chapter 4: Creating, Indexing and Deleting Data Chapter Goal: This chapter introduces data management using Elasticsearch. It covers features of Elasticsearch. Data is organized as documents. This chapter would show how to add data, index it, update it, and delete it. It also goes on to show how to work with distributed document stores. No of pages: 40 Sub - Topics: 1. Anatomy of a Document 2. Creating Document 3. Indexing a

Gurpreet S. Sachdeva is a Technology Leader with 20 years of experience working on some of the most challenging technologies related to Communication Software, Enterprise Computing and Cloud Computing. Gurpreet did his B. Tech (Computer Engineering) from NIT, Kurukshetra and M.S. (Software Systems) from BITS, Pilani. He is currently working as Director - Technology with Aricent, Gurgaon. He is a keen Java enthusiast and co-founder of Delhi - NCR - Java User Group. Gurpreet is passionate about building cloud scale software and manage it through ELK stack along with other DevOps tools.Gurpreet is an invited speaker in prestigious conferences like Oracle - Java One, Great India Developer Summit, Indic Threads. Gurpreet blogs at http://www.thistechnologylife.com