Get started with the Elastic Stack (formerly known as the ELK Stack). Learn how to work with Kibana and the other core components of the stack.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Start listening to your infrastructure
- What you should know
- What the stack can do
- Overview of the Elastic Stack components
- Set up your learning sandbox
- Deploying Kibana
- Configuring Logstash
- View data in Kibana
- Working with Logstash
- Logstash plugins
- Parsing with Logstash filters
- Explore GrokConstructor
- Building Grok filters
- Challenge: Interactive Logstash
- Solution: Interactive Logstash
- Lighter log ingestions with Beats
- Spin up a noisy web server
- Set up Filebeat
- Get logs into Elasticsearch
- Challenge: Install Metricbeat
- Solution: Install Metricbeat
- Get started with the Kibana search UI
- Kibana Query Language basics
- Visualizations
- Dashboards
- Challenge: Expand the dashboard
- Solution: Expand the dashboard
- Next steps
Taught by
Josh Samuelson
