This section will introduce you to Elasticsearch topics such as text analysis, tokenizers, and analyzers, and to the importance of analysis. We will also learn about aggregation and see how we can acquire powerful insights from terabytes of data. Then, we will learn how to analyze log data using Logstash. You will gain insights into the architecture of Logstash and how to set it up. After that, we will see how filters bring Logstash closer to other real-time and near-real-time stream processing frameworks without the need to code. Finally, we will look at visualizations using Kibana. You will be amazed at how easy it is to create dashboards using Kibana.
This section includes the following chapters: