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ELASTIC 8: Monitoring with Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, APM

Name: ELASTIC 8: Monitoring with Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, APM
Rating: 4.6 (632 reviews)

Learn how to use the Elastic Stack 8 monitoring functionalities. Step by Step to your own elastic cluster, and upgrading

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Created bySimon Becker

Last updated 1/2025

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What you'll learn

Learn how to set up an elasticsearch 8 cluster
Know how the elastic architecture works
Identify issues and troubleshoot
Implement agents and monitor your software
Get to know the Elastic Stack 8
Learn how to update/upgrade your cluster to a new version
Learn how to use the elastic beats
Run elastic in docker
Application performance monitoring with elastic apm server
Use ES|QL to query your data

Course content

16 sections • 86 lectures • 7h 28m total length

Introduction1:43
Tooling1:25
Tools that you need during this course0:22
Check out Github with all supporting configs!0:09

Create the elastic configs in docker compose13:50
Official Elastic Docs for the configs0:02
Troubleshoot possible issues (memlimit)4:51
Discover how to troubleshoot Elasticsearch memory limits in Docker, resolving bootstrap checks failed caused by too low max virtual memory areas and adjusting Linux or Windows Docker settings.
Notes for Memlimit issue0:15
Start the cluster for the first time4:33
Remove all setup structures from your cluster0:51
Remove the setup service from the Docker compose YAML after the cluster starts, keeping the three Elasticsearch services and Kibana, updating S01, and restart the cluster.

Install Virtualbox as Lab environment1:22
Installing Ubuntu on VBOX6:40
Speed it up | Osboxes3:09
OSboxes UUID issue that you should know how to fix2:37
Installing Elasticsearch on Ubuntu5:52
Docs for installing Elasticsearch on ubuntu0:07
Installing Kibana on Ubuntu6:49
Install Kibwana on Ubuntu using the Debian package, add the GPG key, configure apt with https, enroll Kibwana to Elasticsearch with an enrollment token, start Cabana, and open localhost:5601.
Making kibana accessible from other hosts2:23
Edit Kibana's configuration to set server.host from localhost to 0.0.0.0, restart the Kibana service, and verify access from other hosts on the local network.
Docs for installing Kibana on ubuntu0:07
Preparation of Virtual Box to add another elasticsearch node3:11
Use the docs for the next lecture0:06
Adding a 2nd node to the elasticsearch cluster13:45
Demonstrates adding a second Elasticsearch node by configuring its yaml, generating enrollment tokens, sshing between nodes, restarting services, and verifying the two-node cluster in Cabana.
Adding a 3rd node to the elasticsearch cluster14:51
Install Elasticsearch on node three, configure discovery seed hosts and master nodes with the other two, restart services, and verify a three-node cluster in Kibana dev tools.
Configuration example for a 3 node cluster1:34

What are Beats3:19
Beats official docs0:10
General setup guide for all beats11:42
Set Up Metricbeat21:52
Set up metricbeat in docker13:31
Set Up Filebeat16:16
Set Up filebeat in docker8:54
Deploy filebeat in Docker to collect container logs via the Docker module and socket, enrich with Docker metadata, and ship them to Elasticsearch, with Kibana for live log exploration.
Set up Heartbeat14:16
Set up heartbeat for uptime monitoring and observability with Elasticsearch and Kibana, configure monitors for HTTP checks, and view data streams, uptime, and results.
Set Up Heartbeat in docker9:33
Set up ILM for Beats4:44
Configure index lifecycle management for beats data streams in Elasticsearch, linking templates and policies to transition data from hot to warm or cold storage and delete after retention.
Create beats dashboards7:37

Introduction to Kibana | The Kibana Home Page3:13
Discover8:32
Visualizations12:54
Dashboards4:01
Observability: Overview1:46
Explore the observability overview, review logs, metrics, APM, and uptime, and check hosts and services like lk01 and Java; note that user experience monitoring and alerts are not yet activated.
Observability: Logs3:35
Observability: Metrics1:12
View and group multiple hosts by metric types, monitor memory and CPU usage, and switch between Kubernetes ports and Docker containers to observe pods, group by host name, and manage indices.
Observability: APM3:06
Observability: Uptime1:30
Settings: Stack Management2:07
Explore the management tab to configure settings with def tools for Elasticsearch, review integrations and fleet status, and begin stack management configurations for Cabana and Elasticsearch.
Settings: User Management: Users and Roles8:06
Discover how to create users and roles in elasticsearch and kibana, assign fine-grained index privileges, and tailor a non-admin test user for secure access and dashboards.
Settings: Spaces9:08

Requirements

Docker basic knowledge, linux, bash basic knowledge

Description

[DISCLAIMER: This course requires you to download Docker from docker(dot)com. If you are a Udemy Business User, please check with your employer before downloading]

Elastic 8 is finally released. And so admins fear the breaking changes and new functionalities.

But no worries! - This course will help you getting started with Elastic 8.x.

This course will teach you on how to setup your elastic cluster by yourself to ingest monitoring data to it.

Also you learn on how to upgrade your cluster to a new version.

I will give you a brief overview on how to design a cluster as well as hands on examples on creating a cluster and ingesting data into it.

I will give you examples on how to create a cluster in Elastic using docker and Ubuntu.

Also I will show you on how to ingest data with elastic beats and how to create retention policies for your data.

I also compare for you the changes between elastic 7.6 and elastic 8.x and show you what changed during this major release.

This course since elastic is bringing many changes in a short period of time will constantly grow.

Topics like elastic Logstash and way more topics are already planned and will be released soon - for free when you purchase this course. I will keep updating this course as long as elastic 8.x is the most recent version of elastic.

So with that being said - this is the course for everyone who wants to use elastic, Kibana, beats...

Who this course is for:

Elastic beginners, everyone who wants to monitor his applications

ELASTIC 8: Monitoring with Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, APM

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Course content

Introduction4 lectures • 4min

Elastic Cloud vs OnPremise2 lectures • 10min

Designing an elasticsearch cluster2 lectures • 8min

Setting up the elastic cluster in docker (Elasticsearch + Kibana)6 lectures • 24min

Running ELK in Linux14 lectures • 1hr 3min

Configuring elasticsearch8 lectures • 36min

Configuring Kibana4 lectures • 15min

Elastic Beats | Get the Data in your cluster11 lectures • 1hr 52min

Elastic APM | Tracing at it's best3 lectures • 22min

Learn the Kibana UI12 lectures • 59min

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