What's a good book to learn ELK hands-on?

I have an instance set up and working but want to need some more advanced features? like mapping, index templates, querying remotely for aggregations.

The Elastic docs feel very high level and maybe assumes u can read their minds... A lot of snippets I just go "uhm.. where do I put this in the file, which file?"

Following .

Buy RAM first

I know your pain.

I had to learn it a few years back by myself.

My suggestion to you is start very small, with a couple of indices, make practice, test, and work on defining each index scheme, and add different mappings and some data with different types, try different files (images, docs, pdfs, whatever your use case is), json strings, and free text. Then test them query them in Kibana.

Remove and rebuild is welcome at this stage, and its good to learn whats best for your use case. Once you got the mapping and scheme with some data running well, increment and add the rest of the indices,map and data. Make use of shards to scale properly when in need.

Tl;DR - start small and build from there. Nothing beats experience

@bioDan actually this is for work so I'm learning on the fly. I need to produce results...

I have data loading and Kibana's working it just managing the flow. The index pattern refresh pulls like 400 fields. I have an SO with more details but it seems what I need is to control which fields are indexed.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

But at the same time I want to learn it in order I guess, like one of those Packt books that the you through and explain everything with examples that actually work.

Also how do you input that into curl... (See the answer), it's multiline....

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...