Learning Elastic Stack

Course details

The Elastic Stack gives you the ability to aggregate logs from all your systems and applications, analyze these logs, and create visualizations for application and infrastructure monitoring, faster troubleshooting, security analytics, and more. This practical, exercise-driven course is focused on getting you up and running quickly in order to immediately get some benefit from the tools. Instructor Josh Samuelson covers setting up a full stack and shows you how to manage the tools. He explains the basics about how to work with the Elastic Stack, focusing on what you need to get started, so that you can feel confident exploring the tools on your own after completing the course.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Get control of your data
02 - What you should know

1. The Elastic Stack

03 - What the stack can do
04 - Overview of the Elastic Stack components
05 - Set up your learning sandbox
06 - Install Elasticsearch and configure SSL
07 - Deploying Kibana
08 - View data in Kibana

2. Elastic Agent and Fleet

09 - Introducing Elastic Agent
10 - Install Fleet Server
11 - Install Elastic Agents

3. Getting Data into the Elastic Stack

12 - Getting data into Elasticsearch
13 - Spin up a noisy webserver
14 - Ingest Web Logs
15 - Processors
16 - Challenge - Elastic Agent and Elasticsearch integration
17 - Solution - Elastic Agent and Elasticsearch integration

4. Working with Kibana

18 - Explore the Kibana UI
19 - Kibana Query Language basics
20 - Visualizations
21 - Dashboards
22 - Challenge - Expand the dashboard
23 - Solution - Expand the dashboard

Conclusion

24 - Next steps

Learning Elastic Stack

Authors

Josh Samuelson