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Course Outline

Introduction

  • Overview of the Elastic Stack (ELK)

Elasticsearch

Overview:

  • Concepts and Rationale
  • Key Terminology: Documents, Indices, Shards, Nodes, Clusters, Scaling Up/Out

Operations: Configuration and Deployment

  • Configuring Elasticsearch
  • Deploying Elasticsearch
  • Lab Session

Nodes: Discovery, Types, and Cluster State

  • Distributed Architecture and Discovery
  • Master, Data, Client, and Tribe Nodes
  • Master Election and Minimum Master Nodes
  • Cluster State Management
  • Shard Allocation

Backup: Snapshots and Restoration

  • High Availability Versus Backup
  • Repositories, Snapshots, and Restoration
  • Underlying Mechanisms

Production Monitoring

  • Best Practices for Alerting
  • JVM Management
  • Query Performance Optimization
  • Thread Pools
  • Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

Production Operational Best Practices

  • Memory Management
  • Networking
  • Disk Configuration
  • Security
  • Cluster Restarts (Rolling and Full)

Logstash

  • Concepts and Rationale
  • Configuration
  • Inputs, Filters, and Outputs
  • Installation and Configuration
  • Backup and Restoration
  • Cluster and Availability Considerations
  • Best Practices

Kibana

  • Concepts and Rationale
  • Configuration Settings
  • Time Picker, Search, and Filters
  • Kibana Discover, Visualization, and Dashboard Interfaces
  • Installation and Configuration
  • Backup and Restoration
  • Cluster and Availability Considerations
  • Best Practices

Filebeat

  • Log Management and Troubleshooting
  • Filebeat Architecture
  • Installation and Configuration
  • Backup and Restoration
  • 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

Target Audience

  • System administrators
 14 Hours

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