Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Core Components
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Elastic Stack
An overview of the Elastic Stack
The evolution of the Elastic Stack
A note about licensing
What is Elasticsearch?
When to use Elasticsearch
Architectural characteristics of Elasticsearch
When Elasticsearch may not be the right tool
Introducing Kibana
Collecting and ingesting data
Collecting data from across your environment using Beats
Centralized extraction and transformation and loading your data with Logstash
Deciding between using Beats and Logstash
Running the Elastic Stack
Standalone deployments
Elastic Cloud
Solutions built on the stack
Enterprise Search
Security
Observability
Summary
Chapter 2: Installing and Running the Elastic Stack
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