Getting Started with Elastic Stack 8.0: Run powerful and scalable data platforms to search, observe, and secure your organization

by Asjad Athick, Shay Banon (Foreword)

Use the Elastic Stack for search, security, and observability-related use cases while working with large amounts of data on-premise and on the cloud The Elastic Stack helps you work with massive volumes of data to power use cases in the search, observability, and security solution areas. This three-part book starts with an introduction to the Elastic Stack with high-level commentary on the solutions the stack can be leveraged for. The second section focuses on each core component, giving you a detailed understanding of the component and the role it plays. You'll start by working with Elasticsearch to ingest, search, analyze, and store data for your use cases. Next, you'll look at Logstash, Beats, and Elastic Agent as components that can collect, transform, and load data. Later chapters help you use Kibana as an interface to consume Elastic solutions and interact with data on Elasticsearch. The last section explores the three main use cases offered on top of the Elastic Stack. You'll start with a full-text search and look at real-world outcomes powered by search capabilities. Furthermore, you'll learn how the stack can be used to monitor and observe large and complex IT environments. Finally, you'll understand how to detect, prevent, and respond to security threats across your environment. The book ends by highlighting architecture best practices for successful Elastic Stack deployments. By the end of this book, you'll be able to implement the Elastic Stack and derive value from it. Developers and solutions architects looking to get hands-on experience with search, security, and observability-related use cases on the Elastic Stack will find this book useful. This book will also help tech leads and product owners looking to understand the value and outcomes they can derive for their organizations using Elastic technology. No prior knowledge of the Elastic Stack is required.

474 pages, Paperback

Published March 23, 2022

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent resource which provided me with a swift and intelligent training on Elastic. Learning by UDemy was my alternative but preferred this book as the key learning tool for what used to be called ELK.

The code on GitHub for each chapter helped as the json indentations format better in an actual code view.

The chapters were well layed out with just the right depth of material. I also appreciated the DevOps and cloud native parts applicable to the software while keeping traditional install as the default configuration

[Mostafa Tarek Gwely · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s a great book to start with for understanding the concepts, though it does miss a few topics—like transforms