Beginner's Crash Course to Elastic Stack - Part 1: Intro to Elasticsearch and Kibana

This workshop is Part 1 of the Beginner’s Crash Course to Elastic Stack.

Beginner’s Crash Course is a series of workshops for all developers with little to no experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana or those who could use a refresher.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

- understand how the products of Elastic Stack work together to search, analyze, and visualize data in real time
- understand the basic architecture of Elasticsearch
- run CRUD operations with Elasticsearch and Kibana

Time Stamp:
- What is the Elastic Stack? 5:18
- A use case of Elasticsearch and Kibana 10:14
- Basic architecture of Elasticsearch(cluster, nodes, & shards) 14:54
- How to download Elasticsearch and Kibana 25:45
- Performing CRUD operations 36:28

Resources
Table of Contents for Beginner’s Crash Course to Elastic Stack:

The link above includes the table of contents for all repos shared during the course.

These repos contain all the resources shared during the workshops including the presentation slides, the recording, as well as Elasticsearch requests.

Be sure to check out Part 1 repo as you follow along!

[AkshayAradhya]

This is exactly what I was looking for.

My left ear thanks you

[iayushch]

I can't even imagine someone could teach me in such an efficient way. Thankyou so much ma'am. Lots of love from India.

[elisosa]

As someone who works with Elastic every day, I wish I would have seen this video 4 years ago! Great job!

[brandanmeister]

I just have to say, I'm 23 minutes in and you have done an incredible job articulating a complex topic into an enjoyable education.

[vuhaiang]

Oh my god I'm so happy to finally find this crash course! Really appreciate your work. Thank you so much

[CodingJesus]

This was the clearest explanation I ever heard.

[warms]

Crystal clear training. Amazing teacher! Thanks!

[nhatle]

Thank you! It's extremely great.
If anyone gets trouble with left-side audio, (this because of video maker not your computer) you could turn on the "mono audio" in Settings.

[neelshah]

This is an amazing video to start my ELK stack journey. Understood concept to its core depth. Also, CRUD operations were perfect examples to understand how data is stored as JSON objects. Thank you Lisa!

[Jmzzme]

This is the video I have been searching for! Clear, easy to understand and fun presentation and explanation.
Thank you so much!

[markandreessen]

Wow, sooo helpful! What a pearl on YT. Concise, clear, perfect speed, nice voice!

[leetianbo]

Wow, you are a godsend ! you teach flawlessly, thank you for the clear breakdown.

[chauphuoc]

This is the best tutorial for beginners, very easy to understand

[arfathali]

I'm 25 minutes in and you have done an amazing job for explaining such a complex topic. One request to add download details for elasticsearch and kibana might be nice.

[shaunhayward]

What a great presentation. Very easy to understand. I love the HTTP API that ES gives. It's so incredibly simple and elegant.

[andrewbrady]

This is fantastic information, wish it was in stereo or even mono, not just one side of my head ;)

[rembautimes]

Spent my day-off going thru the tutorials. Thanks Lisa.

[abhishekpatnaik]

Excellent ..love the way each and every part is described so easily..great video

[elahegolpayegani]

This is PERFECTTTT...absolutely useful ....the way Lisa speak and introduced is like a story. Thank u so much

[belmaibrahimbas]

That was a great introduction to Elasticsearch, thanks so much Lisa!