Learning Elastic Stack 6.0 (Udemy.com)

Power your analytics career using Elastic Stack

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Created by: Packt Publishing

Produced in 2018

What you will learn

Familiarize yourself with the different components of the Elastic Stack
Get to know the new functionalities introduced in Elastic Stack 6.
Effectively build your data pipeline to get terabytes or petabytes of data into ElasticSearch and Logstash for searching and logging.
Use Kibana to visualize data and tell data stories in real-time
Secure, monitor, and use the alerting and reporting capabilities of Elastic Stack.
Take your Elastic application to an on-premise or cloud-based production

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Course Description

The Elastic Stack is a powerful combination of tools for distributed search, analytics, logging, and the visualization of data from medium to massive datasets. The newly released Elastic Stack 6 brings new features and capabilities that empower users to find unique, actionable insights through these techniques. This course will give you a fundamental understanding of what the stack is all about, and how to use it efficiently to build powerful real-time data-processing applications. After a quick overview of the newly introduced features in Elastic Stack 6, you'll learn how to set up the stack by installing the tools, and explore their basic configurations. Then we demonstrates the creation of custom plugins using Kibana. We also provide useful tips on how to use the Elastic Cloud and deploy the Elastic Stack in production environments. After completing this course, you'll have a solid foundational knowledge of basic Elastic Stack functionalities. You'll also have a good understanding of the role each component in the stack plays to solve different data processing problems.
About the Author

Pranav Shukla is the founder and CEO of Valens DataLabs, a technologist, husband, and father of two. He is a big data architect and software craftsman who uses JVM-based languages. Pranav has diverse experience of over 14 years in architecting enterprise applications for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. His core expertise lies in building JVM-based, scalable, reactive, and data-driven applications using Java/Scala, the Hadoop ecosystem, Apache Spark, and NoSQL databases. He is a big data engineering, analytics, and machine learning enthusiast.

Pranav founded Valens DataLabs with a vision to help companies leverage data to their competitive advantage. Valens DataLabs specializes in developing next-generation, cloudbased, reactive, and data-intensive applications using big data and web technologies. The company believes in agile practices, lean principles, test-driven and behavior-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery for sustainable software systems.

In his free time, he enjoys reading books, playing musical instruments, singing, listening to music, and watching cricket. You can reach him via email at pranav.shukla@valensdatalab and follow him on Twitter at @pranavshukla81.

Sharath Kumar is currently working as a "Big Data Architect" at CA Technologies. Prior to this, he was working as an Elasticsearch Solutions Architect at Oracle. He has done his masters in Computer Science at The University of Texas, Dallas, USA. He is an Elastic Stack advocate, and being an avid speaker he has also given several tech talks in conferences such as the Oracle Code Event. He is a certified trainer-Elastic Certified Instructor-one of the few technology experts in the world who has been certified by Elastic Inc. to deliver their official from the creators of Elastic training. You can reach him via email at mnsk07@gmail
Who this course is for:

This course is for data professionals who want to get amazing insights and business metrics from their data sources. If you want to get a fundamental understanding of the Elastic Stack for distributed, real-time processing of data, this book will help you

Time: 3h

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