Tag: Elasticsearch Configuration

Setting up Prerequisites

• Elasticsearch: Introduction 
• Elasticsearch: Installation and Configuration
• elasticdump
• Brief Introduction to Kibana
• Nested Objects – Limitation to Kibana

Setting up Kibana

• Kibana: Install and Configure
• Configuring Elasticsearch and connecting Kibana
  • Dynamic Mapping
  • Limitations
• Tribe Nodes

Using Kibana

• Indices and Filters
• Discover Interface
  • Time Filter
  • Toolbar and Searchbar
  • Field Lists
  • Document Data and Context – Add/View/Edit/Delete
• Visualization Interface
  • Aggregations
    • Bucket Aggregations – Date Histogram, Date Range, Range, Histogram, Terms and Filters
    • Metric Aggregations – Count, Sum, Average, Min, Max, Percentile, Percentile Ranks and Unique
  • Create Visualization
  • Chart, Line, Area
  • Data Table
  • Metrics
  • Other Visualization Types
• Dashboard Interface: Building, Merging, Loading and Sharing
• Graph: Configure, Troubleshoot and Limitations

Kibana: Dev Console

• Overview
• Shortcuts: Brief
• Settings and Configuring

Kibana in Production

• SSL encryption
• Load Balancing using Elasticsearch Nodes

Management

• Managing Fields and Formatters
• Saved Searches, Visualizationad and Dashboards
• Apache/nginx proxy for security

Plugins

• Install/Update/Disable/Remove Plugins
• Plugins Manager

Introduction

• Elastic Stack Overview (ELK)

Elasticsearch

Overview:

• What and Why
• Terminology: Documents, Index, Shards, Node, Cluster, Scale Up/Out

Operate: Configuring & Deploying

• Configuring Elasticsearch
• Deploying Elasticsearch
• Lab

Node: Discovery, Types, and Cluster State

• Distributed Model and Discovery
• Master, Data, Client, and Tribe Nodes
• Master Election and Minimum Master Nodes
• Cluster State
• Shard Allocation

Backup: Snapshot and Restore

• High Availability vs. Backup
• Repository, Snapshot, and Restore
• Internals

Production Monitoring

• Alerting Best Practices
• JVM
• Query Performance
• Thread Pools
• Diagnosing Problems

Production Operational Best Practices

• Memory
• Networking
• Disk
• Security
• Cluster Restart (Rolling and Full)

Logstash

• What and Why
• Configuration
• Inputs, Filters, and Outputs
• Installation and configuration
• Backup and restore
• Cluster and availability nuances
• Best practices

Kibana

• What and Why
• Configuration Settings
• Time Picker, Search, and Filters
• Kibana Discover, Visualization, and Dashboard Interfaces
• Installation and configuration
• Backup and restore
• Cluster and availability nuances
• Best practices

Filebeat

• Logs and problems
• Filebeat architecture
• Installation and configuration
• Backup and restore
• Cluster and availability nuances
• Best practices

Summary and Conclusion