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Mastering Elastic Stack

You're reading from Mastering Elastic Stack Dive into data analysis with a pursuit of mastering ELK Stack on real-world scenarios.

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786460011

Length 526 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Elasticsearch

Concepts

Data Analysis

Authors (2):

Kumar Gupta

Gupta

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Mastering Elastic Stack

Credits

About the Authors

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Preface

1. Elastic Stack Overview FREE CHAPTER

2. Stepping into Elasticsearch

3. Exploring Logstash and Its Plugins

4. Kibana Interface

5. Using Beats

6. Elastic Stack in Action

7. Customizing Elastic Stack

8. Elasticsearch APIs

9. X-Pack: Security and Monitoring

10. X-Pack: Alerting, Graph, and Reporting

11. Best Practices

12. Case Study-Meetup

Plugins Command-Line Options

As we have already discussed the various type of plugins available in Logstash, let's understand how to list/install/update/remove a plugin using the logstash-plugin script, which is present within the bin folder of Logstash.

The usage of the plugin command-line option is as follows:

bin/logstash-plugin [OPTIONS] SUBCOMMAND [ARG]

The various subcommands are list, install, remove, update, pack, unpack, and generate.

list is used to list the installed plugins, install is used to install a plugin, remove is used to remove a plugin, update is used to update a plugin, pack is used to package already installed plugins and unpack is used to unpack packaged plugins.

Listing of Plugins

To list all the plugins available in Logstash:

bin/logstash-plugin list

The various options available for list can be viewed using:

bin/logstash-plugin list --help

It displays options such as --installed, --verbose, --group NAME.

To find an installed plugin using its name:

bin/logstash-plugin...

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Authors (2)

Kumar Gupta

Kumar Gupta

Ravi Kumar Gupta is an author, reviewer, and open source software evangelist. He pursued an MS degree in software system at BITS Pilani and a B.Tech at LNMIIT, Jaipur. His technological forte is portal management and development. He is currently working with Azilen Technologies, where he acts as a Technical Architect and Project Manager. His previous assignment was as a lead consultant with CIGNEX Datamatics. He was a core member of the open source group at TCS, where he started working on Liferay and other UI technologies. During his career, he has been involved in building enterprise solutions using the latest technologies with rich user interfaces and open source tools. He loves to spend time writing, learning, and discussing new technologies. His interest in search engines and that small project on crawler during college time made him a technology lover. He is one of the authors of Test-Driven JavaScript Development, Packt Publishing. He is an active member of the Liferay forum. He also writes technical articles for his blog at TechD of Computer World (http://techdc.blogspot.in). He has been a Liferay trainer at TCS and CIGNEX, where he has provided training on Liferay 5.x and 6.x versions. He was also a reviewer for Learning Bootstrap, Packt Publishing. He can be reached on Skype at kravigupta, on Twitter at @kravigupta, and on LinkedIn at https://in.linkedin.com/in/kravigupta.

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Gupta

Yuvraj Gupta is an author and a keen technologist with interest towards Big Data, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and Cloud Computing. He has been working as a Big Data Consultant primarily in domain of Big Data Testing. He loves to spend time writing on various social platforms. He is an avid gadget lover, a foodie, a sports enthusiast and love to watch tv-series or movies. He always keep himself updated with the latest happenings in technology. He has authored a book titled Kibana Essentials with Packt Publishers. He can be reached at [email protected] or at LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/guptayuvraj.

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