The Elastic stack is a versatile collection of open source software tools that make gathering insights from data easier. Formerly referred to as the ELK stack (in reference to Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), the growing list of tools that integrate with the platform (such as Beats) have outgrown the acronym but provide ever-growing capability for users and developers alike.
At the upcoming Southeast Linuxfest 2016, I’ll be covering some of the steps to get started using each of these parts of the stack. In this article, we’ll look at each in turn to summarize the capabilities, requirements, and interesting use cases that apply to each.
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