Elastic Stack 8.x Cookbook: Over 80 recipes to perform ingestion, search, visualization, and monitoring for actionable insights

Unlock the full potential of Elastic Stack for search, analytics, security, and observability and manage substantial data workloads in both on-premise and cloud environments

Key Features
Explore the diverse capabilities of the Elastic Stack through a comprehensive set of recipes
Build search applications, analyze your data, and observe cloud-native applications
Harness powerful machine learning and AI features to create data science and search applications
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Book Description
Learn how to make the most of the Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) products—including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Elastic Agent, and Logstash—to take data reliably and securely from any source, in any format, and then search, analyze, and visualize it in real-time. This cookbook takes a practical approach to unlocking the full potential of Elastic Stack through detailed recipes step by step.

Starting with installing and ingesting data using Elastic Agent and Beats, this book guides you through data transformation and enrichment with various Elastic components and explores the latest advancements in search applications, including semantic search and Generative AI. You'll then visualize and explore your data and create dashboards using Kibana. As you progress, you'll advance your skills with machine learning for data science, get to grips with natural language processing, and discover the power of vector search. The book covers Elastic Observability use cases for log, infrastructure, and synthetics monitoring, along with essential strategies for securing the Elastic Stack. Finally, you'll gain expertise in Elastic Stack operations to effectively monitor and manage your system.

What you will learn
Discover techniques for collecting data from diverse sources
Visualize data and create dashboards using Kibana to extract business insights
Explore machine learning, vector search, and AI capabilities of Elastic Stack
Handle data transformation and data formatting
Build search solutions from the ingested data
Leverage data science tools for in-depth data exploration
Monitor and manage your system with Elastic Stack
Who this book is for
This book is for Elastic Stack users, developers, observability practitioners, and data professionals ranging from beginner to expert level. If you’re a developer, you’ll benefit from the easy-to-follow recipes for using APIs and features to build powerful applications, and if you’re an observability practitioner, this book will help you with use cases covering APM, Kubernetes, and cloud monitoring. For data engineers and AI enthusiasts, the book covers dedicated recipes on vector search and machine learning. No prior knowledge of the Elastic Stack is required.

Table of Contents
Getting Started – Installing the Elastic Stack
Ingesting General Content Data
Building Search Applications
Timestamped Data Ingestion
Transform Data
Visualize and Explore Data
Alerting and Anomaly Detection
Advanced Data Analysis and Processing
Vector Search and Generative AI Integration
Elastic Observability Solution
Managing Access Control
Elastic Stack Operation
Elastic Stack Monitoring