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Introduction

  • Overview of the Elastic Stack (ELK)

Elasticsearch

Overview:

  • Core concepts and use cases
  • Key Terminology: Documents, Index, Shards, Node, Cluster, Scaling Up/Out

Operation: Configuration & Deployment

  • Configuring Elasticsearch
  • Deploying Elasticsearch
  • Lab Session

Node Management: Discovery, Types, and Cluster State

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

Backup: Snapshot and Restore

  • Distinguishing High Availability from Backup
  • Repositories, Snapshots, and Restore procedures
  • Underlying Internals

Production Monitoring

  • Best practices for Alerting
  • JVM management
  • Optimizing Query Performance
  • Thread Pool management
  • Troubleshooting and Diagnosis

Production Operational Best Practices

  • Memory management
  • Networking considerations
  • Disk management
  • Security measures
  • Cluster Restart procedures (Rolling and Full)

Logstash

  • Core concepts and use cases
  • Configuration
  • Inputs, Filters, and Outputs
  • Installation and configuration
  • Backup and restore
  • Cluster and availability considerations
  • Best practices

Kibana

  • Core concepts and use cases
  • Configuration Settings
  • Time Picker, Search, and Filters
  • Interfaces for Discovery, Visualization, and Dashboards
  • Installation and configuration
  • Backup and restore
  • Cluster and availability considerations
  • Best practices

Filebeat

  • Log management and common issues
  • Filebeat architecture
  • Installation and configuration
  • Backup and restore
  • Cluster and availability considerations
  • Best practices

Summary and Conclusion

Requirements

  • Experience in system administration
  • Familiarity with the Linux command line
  • No prior experience with Elasticsearch is required

Audience

  • System administrators
 14 Hours

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