In this post, I will demonstrate loading my criminal activity data into ElasticSearch sot it can be explored, analyzed and visualized in Kibana. For instructions on installing and configuring the Elastic (formerly ELK) Stack, see my previous post. Although this post will specially reference the crime data from my PostgreSQL database, I will include additional…
Category: Elastic Stack
Introduction to the Elastic Stack
This post will describe the Elastic Stack, also and formerly the ELK Stack, and its individual components. In a follow-up post, I’ll demonstrate how to get the ELK Stack up and running. What is the ELK Stack? The ELK Stack consists of Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana developed by Elastic. Later the company came out with…
Getting Started with the ELK Stack
In this post I’ll demonstrate how to get the ELK Stack up and running. Installing the ELK Stack First we will install Elasticsearch, then Logstash, and then finally Kibana. Most of the instructions are the same if you follow the official documentation (links provided below). If you follow my instructions, you’ll get the parts that…