Getting data for analysis

ML is not very exciting without data in Elasticsearch to analyze. So, let's get some using Metricbeat! Metricbeat is easy to install and configure. It serves as a great source of raw telemetry data that is perfect for ML. Follow along—we'll assume you haven't yet installed Metricbeat, so we can do this together now.

Start by downloading Metricbeat from this page: https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat. We will run through the installation on macOS X, but if you want to install on a different platform, please refer to the installation documentation at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-installation.html.

After extracting Metricbeat to the directory of your choice, you ...

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