elk-stack

Welcome to the ELK Stack labs.

These are hands-on resources to help you learn Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana.

Pre-reqs

• Set up Docker and a Git client
• Download your repo
  • Open a terminal (PowerShell on Windows; any shell on Linux/macOS)
  • Run: git clone xxx
  • Open the folder: cd elk-stack
• Optional
  • Install Visual Studio Code (free - Windows, macOS and Linux) to browse the repo and documentation

Part 1 - Getting Started with Elasticsearch

• You know, for search
• Documents, Fields and Mappings
• Aggregation Queries
• Shards and Replicas

Part 2 - Accessing Data with Kibana

• Running Kibana
• Querying data
• Visualizing data
• Building dashboards

Part 3 - Ingesting Data with Logstash

• Running Logstash
• Pipelines
• Index templates and aliases
• Logstash and/or Beats

Part 4 - Advanced Elasticsearch

• Analyzers
• Advanced mapping
• Python client API

Part 5 - Real-World ELK

• Scaling Elasticsearch
• Buffering for Logstash
• Authentication for Kibana
• Fluentbit - swapping EFK for ELK

Part 6 - Hackathon

• ELK vs. the Elastic stack
• Troubleshooting
• Hackathon! # new es cluster, logstach to ingest existing data, dashboard setup

Credits

Created by @EltonStoneman (sixeyed): Freelance Consultant and Trainer. Author of Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, Learn Kubernetes in a Month of Lunches and many Pluralsight courses.

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