ELK Stack for Systems Monitoring Training Course

Who should attend

This course is aimed at SREs, Ops / DevOps engineers, sysadmins and data centre managers who need to collect useful metrics and create reporting visualisations on system / distributed system performance.

Prerequisites

Delegates will ideally have a background in distributed systems / container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and should be comfortable with Command Line programming.

Live, instructor-led online and on-site training

We appreciate that you need flexibility to fit in with new working situations - whether you're an individual, part of a distributed team, or simply have projects and deadlines to meet. 

Our remote training can take place online in a virtual classroom, with content split into modules to accommodate your scheduling challenges and meet your learning goals. Get in touch today to find out how we can help design a cost-effective, flexible training solution.

As soon as it's safe, we'll return to also offering the on-site custom training courses and programmes upon which we've built our reputation.

Introduction

• Overview of the Elastic / ELK stack 
• Elasticsearch
• Logstash
• Kibana
• Beats
• What can I monitor?

Getting Started

• Firing up Elastic in Docker / Kubernetes 
• Setting up Beats

Getting to grips with Metrics & Beats

• Data shippers and their roles
• Filebeat
• Metricbeat
• Packetbeat
• Auditbeat
• Heartbeat
• Functionbeat

Searching across high-cardinality data

• Tags
• Dimensions
• Fields

Handling Time Series Data

• Data Types
• BKD trees
• Columnar Store

Aggregations

• Introduction
• Aggregation Types
• Metric Aggregations
• Bucket Aggregations
• Metric + Bucket Aggregations
• Nested Aggregations

ELK and Prometheus

• Consolidating Datasources
• Logs
• APM data
• Connecting to a Prometheus server
• Using Microbeat to connect to Prometheus Exporters

Using Kibana to visualise...everything

• Creating your visualisation dashboard
• Selecting datasource
• Enhancing visualisations