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Course Outline
Introduction
- General overview of the Elastic Stack (ELK).
ELK Stack Architecture and Current Environment Review
- Review of the current Altor CB architecture.
- ELK architecture: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats.
- Ingest nodes versus Logstash.
- Scalability and performance considerations in on-premise installations.
- Administration best practices.
Beats – Distributed Monitoring
- Configuration and utilization of Filebeat, Auditbeat, Winlogbeat, and Packetbeat.
- Secure data shipping with SSL.
- Preconfigured modules versus custom inputs.
- Integration with Logstash and Ingest Pipelines.
Parsing and Ingesting Logs from Applications and Databases
- Ingesting custom logs from applications.
- Using Logstash for data parsing and transformation.
- Application of filters: grok, dissect, kv, mutate, and date.
- Database connections (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) via the JDBC input plugin.
- Practical scenarios: error logs, audit trails, traces, and slow queries.
Advanced Search and Regular Expressions
- Advanced search syntax in Kibana.
- Application of regular expressions (regex).
- Filters and OR/AND logical combinations.
- Nested fields and arrays.
- Saving reusable queries and filters.
Custom Dashboards and Visualizations in Kibana
- Visualization types: bar, line, maps, and tables.
- Aggregations and metrics.
- Dynamic filters, controls, and drill-down features.
- Dashboard sharing capabilities.
- Exercises: creating dashboards from database and system logs.
Alerts and Email Notifications
- Introduction to Watcher and alternatives (ElastAlert, Kibana Alerts).
- Creating custom conditions and triggers.
- Email output configuration.
- Exercise: sending alerts when critical events are detected in Windows or database logs.
User and Permission Management
- Introduction to X-Pack and available free options.
- Creating users and roles.
- Access control by index, dashboard, and query.
- Exercise: defining roles for audit and operations teams.
Elasticsearch REST API
- Foundations of the Elasticsearch RESTful API.
- GET and POST queries.
- Manual and automated indexing.
- Utilizing tools such as curl and Postman.
- Exercises: searching, inserting, deleting, and updating documents.
Requirements
- A solid understanding of the basic ELK Stack architecture and its components.
- Experience with ingesting and visualizing logs using Kibana and Logstash.
- Familiarity with Linux command line operations and basic scripting.
Audience
- System administrators.
- Infrastructure engineers.
- Technical teams seeking advanced log centralization capabilities.
21 Hours
Testimonials (2)
The content is very helpful, and the trainer makes it more easier to understand
Ibrahim Al mayahi - Vastech SA
Course - Advanced Elasticsearch and Kibana Administration
the profesionalism of the trainer; the way he tried to respond to all the questions; the review questions we had to ask: engaging us in conversations