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Learning ELK Stack
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Learning ELK Stack

by Saurabh Chhajed
November 2015
Beginner to intermediate
206 pages
3h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2. Building Your First Data Pipeline with ELK

In the previous chapter, we got familiar with each component of ELK Stack—Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. We got the components installed and configured. In this chapter, we will build our first basic data pipeline using ELK Stack. This will help us understand how easy it is to get together the components of ELK Stack to build an end-to-end analytics pipeline.

While running the example in this chapter, we assume that you already installed Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana as described in Chapter 1, Introduction to ELK Stack.

Input dataset

For our example, the dataset that we are going to use here is the daily Google (GOOG) Quotes price dataset over a 6 month period from July 1, 2014 to ...

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ISBN: 9781785887154