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Duration 21 hours
Course Outline
Introduction
- General overview of the Elastic Stack (ELK)
ELK Stack Architecture and Environment Review
- Review of the current Altor CB architecture
- ELK architecture components: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats
- Comparison of Ingest nodes versus Logstash
- Scalability and performance considerations for on-premise deployments
- Administrative best practices
Beats – Distributed Monitoring
- Configuration and utilization of Filebeat, Auditbeat, Winlogbeat, and Packetbeat
- Secure data transmission using SSL
- Preconfigured modules compared with custom inputs
- Integration with Logstash and Ingest Pipelines
Parsing and Ingesting Logs from Applications and Databases
- Ingestion of custom application logs
- Utilizing Logstash for data parsing and transformation
- Application of filters: grok, dissect, kv, mutate, and date
- Database connectivity (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
- Implementation of regular expressions (regex)
- Filtering and OR/AND logical combinations
- Handling nested fields and arrays
- Saving reusable queries and filters
Custom Dashboards and Visualizations in Kibana
- Visualization types: bar charts, line graphs, maps, and tables
- Aggregations and metric calculations
- Dynamic filters, controls, and drill-down features
- Dashboard sharing mechanisms
- Exercises: building dashboards from database and system logs
Alerts and Email Notifications
- Introduction to Watcher and alternatives such as ElastAlert and Kibana Alerts
- Defining custom conditions and triggers
- Configuring email output
- Exercise: triggering alerts upon detection of critical events in Windows or database logs
User and Permission Management
- Overview of X-Pack and available free options
- Creation of users and roles
- Access control at the index, dashboard, and query level
- Exercise: defining roles for audit and operations teams
Elasticsearch REST API
- Foundations of the Elasticsearch RESTful API
- Executing GET and POST queries
- Manual and automated indexing processes
- Utilization of tools such as curl and Postman
- Exercises: searching, inserting, deleting, and updating documents
Requirements
- Familiarity with the fundamental architecture and components of the ELK Stack
- Practical experience in ingesting and visualizing logs using Kibana and Logstash
- Proficiency with the Linux command line and basic scripting
Target Audience
- System administrators
- Infrastructure engineers
- Technical teams aiming to implement advanced log centralization capabilities
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
