By Motasem Hamdan in Cybersecurity Notes — 31 May 2024

The Elastic Stack Study Notes

The Elastic Stack Study guide explains how Elasticsearch functions as the core storage and search engine, while Logstash and Beats handle data ingestion pipelines.

The Elastic Stack Study Notes and comprehensive Elastic Stack Study guide provide a structured deep dive into the ELK ecosystem Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats , a powerful open-source platform built for large-scale data ingestion, storage, analysis, and visualization. These notes are especially valuable for data analysts, security engineers, and operations teams managing real-time logs and performance metrics.

The Elastic Stack Study guide explains how Elasticsearch functions as the core storage and search engine, while Logstash and Beats handle data ingestion pipelines. Kibana completes the stack with advanced visualization and investigative capabilities. Within the Elastic Stack Study Notes, security professionals learn how to centralize device logs and leverage KQL (Kibana Query Language) for structured threat investigations.

For data analysts, the Elastic Stack Study guide demonstrates how to ingest datasets using custom index templates and structured mappings.

It includes detailed installation walkthroughs across multiple operating systems (Linux, Windows) and containerized deployments (Docker), along with architectural breakdowns covering nodes, clusters, and scaling models. The guide also compares ingestion pathways Beats versus Logstash helping practitioners select the right approach for performance and scalability.

Advanced Kibana coverage within the Elastic Stack Study Notes includes dashboards, Canvas visual storytelling, geographic maps, and alert configuration. Practical cybersecurity case studies illustrate detection scenarios such as brute-force authentication attempts and phishing investigations using KQL queries and visual correlation techniques.

Who are these for?

This study book is for those who want to learn elastic stack, data analysts using elastic stack and cyber security analysts.

Page Count: 131

Format: PDF & Markup

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Will the prices of this booklet change in the future?

Once another version of this E-book is released, which it will, the price will slightly change as the booklet will include more contents, notes and illustrations.

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The Elastic Stack Study Notes