Metrics analytics
Elastic Stack has excellent analytics capabilities thanks to the rich aggregations API in Elasticsearch. This makes it a perfect tool for analyzing data with lots of metrics. Metric data consists of numeric values as opposed to unstructured text such as documents and web pages. Some examples are data generated by sensors, IoT devices, metrics generated by mobile devices, servers, virtual machines, network routers, switches, and so on. The list is endless.
Metric data is typically also of the time series nature, that is, values or measures are recorded over the period of time. The metrics that are recorded are usually related to some entity. For example, a temperature reading (which is a metric) is recorded for a particular ...
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