How-To : Setup Realtime Alalytics over Logs with ELK Stack : Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana?

Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

— Chip & Dan Heath, Authors of Made to Stick, Switch


What is the ELK stack?

The ELK stack consists of open source tools ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana. These three provide a fully working real-time data analytics tool for getting wonderful information sitting on your data.

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Hadoop : Getting Started with Pig

What is Apache Pig?

Apache Pig is a high level scripting language that is used with Apache Hadoop. It enables data analysts to write complex data transformations without knowing Java. Its simple SQL-like scripting language is called Pig Latin, and appeals to developers already familiar with scripting languages and SQL. Pig Scripts are converted into MapReduce Jobs which run on data stored in HDFS (refer to the diagram below).

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Top 10 Hadoop Shell Commands to manage HDFS

So you already know what Hadoop is? Why it is used for? What problems you can solve with it? And you want to know how you can deal with files on HDFS? Don’t worry, you are in the right place.

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