Network Data Analysis with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana

Network Data Analysis with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana

About the Book

(Note: Super Early Release!) This book is written for Network Engineers, Systems Engineers, DevOps Engineers and anybody else who are interested in learning more about using the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats) to understand and analyze their network data.

About the Author

Eric Chou
Eric Chou

Eric Chou is a seasoned technologist with over 18 years of experience. He has worked on and helped managing some of the largest networks in the industry while working at Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and other companies. Eric is passionate about network automation, Python, and helping companies build better security postures. Eric is the author of 'Mastering Python Networking' (Packt Publishing, 1st ed. 2017, 2nd ed. 2018), co-author of 'Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS): Practical Detection and Defense' (O'Reilly Media, 2018), and holds two patents in IP Telephony. He shares his deep interest in technology through his books, classes, blog, and contribute to some of the popular Python open source projects.

Table of Contents

  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgment
    • A Note About The Book
    • Who Should Read This Book
    • How to Read This Book
    • Navigating This Book
    • Online Resources
    • Conventions Used in the Book
    • Contact Information
  • Chapter 1. Jacob Finds the Elastic Stack
    • Overview of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
    • Setting Up the Learning Environment
    • Looking Forward
  • Chapter 2. ELK End-to-End Example
    • Data Ingestion
    • Search
  • Chapter 3. Data Ingestion Pipeline
  • Chapter 4. Search, Search, and More Search
  • Chapter 5. Visualization and Kibana
  • Chapter 6. More Visualization Tools
  • Chapter 7. Other ELK Stack Tools
  • Chapter 8. Machine Learning with ELK
  • Chapter 9. Alerting with Elastalert
  • Chapter 10. The ElastiFlow Project
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
    • Intel NUC Components and Set Up
    • Elasicsearch Scaling
  • About the Author

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