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.
Join Elastic Developer Advocate Lisa Jung(@lisahjung) and get an intro to Elasticsearch and Kibana!
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:
ela.st/beginne...
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

[@deeproy7292]

@@lisajung5435 it's not easy to record continuously for an hour. thanks for the video

[@muhammadyusufbambangsetiad1594]

a quick fix, if you use windows 10, is converting the audio output from stereo to mono... both my ears are thanking :D

[@Geniusking]

A quick fix for Mac: System Preferences > Accessibility > Audio Check the box next to "Play stereo as mono". Remember to uncheck it back when you finish watching the video.

[@akshaysb526]

windows 11 is also working fine with mono audio

[@bharaths6893]

@@muhammadyusufbambangsetiad1594 Thanks for this fix :)

[@elisosa2955]

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

[@elipace2498]

Hi Eli, bro mind if I get you to mentor me on Elastic? My company is trying to migrate from splunk and I have been trying to get my hands on Elk. Please if you don’t mind us being friends. Thank you. 🙏

[@DavidMills1222]

My left ear now is ELK admin

[@toast837]

Came here for this comment

[@one_smol_duck]

Oh, I only had my right earbud in and thought she was just on mute... I was sitting there wondering why they kept the video up lol

[@johnryder7035]

Wanted to write it myself 😜

[@hitmusicworldwide]

@@toast837 I guess Steven Colbert would fail this course

[@couragewon]

Haha 😂

[@nhatle2601]

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.

[@brandanmeister2057]

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.

[@CodingJesus]

This was the clearest explanation I ever heard.

[@chauphuoc5750]

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

[@warms9252]

Crystal clear training. Amazing teacher! Thanks!

[@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.

[@arfathali6669]

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.

[@vuhaiang2852]

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

[@rembautimes8808]

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

[@markandreessen3218]

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

[@elahegolpayegani1482]

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

[@pritishgupta5101]

I usually never comment, but this is hands down the best tutorial for a beginner. Thanks

[@leetianbo6796]

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

[@unsweetenedit9090]

Watched a 3 hour pluralsite intro to elasticsearch that was labeled as 'for beginners'; watched it twice and don't really get it. Watched this once and I get it completely. Fantastic job.

[@chrisgermann7414]

Almost skipped this amazing Video because the sound is comming only from the left side. Switched to my audio boxes. Best decision ever! This tutorial is absolutely amazing

[@andrewbrady698]

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

[@shaunhayward]

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

[@belmaibrahimbas]

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

[@greengrer]

Thank you. Wonderful presenter - due to good sound quality and great speaker skills I was able to follow, think about, and watch through the presented information to the end. Usually I am really struggling with being disinterested and with following presentation with "umms" and mic noises(ADHD). So thank you very much for this workshop.

[@brandanmeister2057]

I can completely relate! If you've found other videos regarding Elastic or the Cloud in general that you were able to sit through with ease like this one, I'd love for you to share them with me. My LinkedIn is Brandan Meister. Cheers!

[@neelshah1943]

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!

[@naveedhassan7399]

Captivating. This is how tutorial needs to be . Lisa is Phenomenal as a trainer..

[@sammatthews516]

This was so good. This has helped me to understand what elasticsearch is, how I install it and assistance with the back end side of things as well, how the yaml files work etc. Excellent.

[@nikmalik7]

Thanks Lisa and elastic team for the video. QA section was amazing, even I had similar questions :)

[@OfficialElasticCommunity]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ssmarasamy]

Very effective teaching. Thanks for your effort

[@qkitselectronics5415]

41:00 nobody ever says Big Turk. Excellent video, great sound, very clear, lots of actual information.

[@samsamhuns928]

Elegant and simplified presentation Lisa Jung !

[@navanitdubey4017]

Start 4:38 installing 26:26 enable mono audio if any hearing from left

[@WittCode]

That was a great explanation! Thanks a ton!

[@abhisheksengupta4159]

Great Video, The instructor is really friendly and knowledgeable. #Respect

[@Jmzzme]

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

[@kayjayabayomi9390]

aamazing presentation, although audio is inbalanced, pretty annoying lol. Great work tho, so so helpful

[@damelyngdoh2370]

Speeded it to 1.25x Looks fine at that speed

[@tgThodoris]

Such great information collected in this session using simple language making it accessible to all

[@ahmettachmuradov8630]

Hatts off, hands down. Well done! You explained the concept like I am 5. :D

[@EmiliaKaida]

There seems to be problem with the sound -> left ear only ?

[@cascossi809]

Congratulations for this excellent Workshop and the materials provided to follow it. Thanks!

[@alexyu2851]

As a non native speaker, I really admire how you just explain new concepts and ideas so ~well! Great teacher and lecturer.

[@kave_08]

hey It's shows your awesome skill and presentation which you teach something in an easiest way thank you so much

[@AdityaSingh-vd1yk]

Keep it up. Really enjoyed your company 🤘On point elastic description. Thank you

[@vitoriaheliane7238]

This workshop is perfect!! Many thanks! 😊 🤩

[@OfficialElasticCommunity]

You are so welcome @Vitória Heliane!

[@achmadfarizky]

Perfect presentation. Great software. Thank you team for sharing this video.

[@alexj4725]

Thank you Lisa for this amazing presentation.

[@abhishekpatnaik007]

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

[@avinashshankarpalli2130]

Just Awesome..exactly what I was looking for

[@TheBIMCoordinator]

This was a wonderful presentation! Explained in a simple and understandable way. I look forward to the other vids!

[@giftfelix4848]

I am very excited watching this cos it's cleared my doubts. Thanks

[@lovavardanian2844]

what a great elastic tutorial 😍 thank you so much for great animation and explanation 👍

[@sepidet6970]

Thanl you Lisa tat was an awesome tutorial. I wish I could see this tutorial 4 years ago. During my master study we had a project that needed to use elsatic stack to store and visualise our log. That was a nightmare for me to figure out how this works and configure it on Docker...

[@youtube_sebastian]

Nice Lisa! very intuitive and coverage is just enough to get you started. My only wish is that a brief demo of beats and logstash should have been done since it is part of the Elastic stack

[@lomoyang3034]

Thank you Lisa for the sharing! This intro is super intuitive and straightforward. I can understand the big picture of ES without any experience ( I think my distributed system experience like Kafka, K8s helps me to understand those concepts easier). @Lisa Jung The only thing that makes me confused is when you use the term `data` when explaining shared. I think what you mean here is something like `meta data` which will be used as a reference to the actual data, not the data itself. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[@muditsaxena3640]

To fix audio issue in windows 10, go to ‘ease of access’ (just search for it) then to audio section and the enable mono

[@akboss3155]

Hey Lisa... You are just awesome, the way you explain the topic is very very nice... You have nice teaching sense... Thanks a lot... Keep it up

[@sabarit2204]

Thank you Lisa you helped me to work on a new project.. ! i need to pull my headset little bit out to get the sound on both side xD

[@simpledeveloper8081]

Easy explanation, thanks a lot (from Uzbekistan)

[@mdjahangirpasha1957]

its Amazing, Hats off to you Lisa

[@AshishSharma-yh6ts]

why is it audible only in the left earbud????

[@kevink6663]

thank you very much, very useful and well explained

[@shirnaliable]

This is an excellent tutorial on Elasticsearch and Kibana. Crisp content and very good presentation with hands-on session

[@abdnacerfried5250]

The sound is not working starting from 4:40 @Official Elastic Community

[@katie4408]

@lisahjung You are a spectacular instructor!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@standard_limbo]

presentation starts at @4:36

[@sourabhpati1392]

Is it just me or is Lisa's voice only left channel? If it is left for all headphone users, on windows this may help : Settings > Ease of Access > Audio, and then switch on the toggle under Turn on mono audio

[@Cheat1995]

Very cool course and very cool this is for free.

[@johnprucha]

VERY CLEAR! Thank you!!!

[@sase1017]

Thank you so much for sharing knowledge!

[@_V__.]

Great intro to ES/Elastic stack! Handled a lot of questions I originally had. Thank you!

[@Justicewarrior795]

My left ear now completely understands elastic thanks a lot. My right ear is confused tho.

[@江福珠]

很棒的es教程，感谢输出：-）

[@renujain8911]

Really good one to follow along as others are not that much intuitive for beginners.... Thanks for putting this together...

[@DanielNiklaus]

Activate Mono-Audio under "Ease of Access" if you use a headset on Windows.

[@abulle5609]

clean and clear presentation. thank you very much

[@romankokhatskyi8137]

Thanks for the tutorials, really helpful!

[@narasimhayadav2281]

Very Nice Demo .Thank you for the clear idea.

[@manojkumarnali1238]

good tutoroial and exp[lained very carefyully even kids understand what is elastic search

[@nichole7965]

Thank for this video. I want use Elastic stack for my dissertation. Can this software find anomalies at the circuit level?

[@endernator]

this is so goood ... thank you

[@__semidulce]

Hello, thank you for the introduction. There is a point I could not understand...I would like to use elastic “search” capabilities in my application and I could not figure out if I need to upload my data to elastic search and query from there with the rest api calls, meaning will elastic search work as an external dbms for me or is it working as an additional layer let’s say, re indexes my data that I store in some database? I would appreciate it a lot if you could clarify.

[@mahavaditube]

Thank you Lisa for a wonderful tutorial. QQ, can we add comments to dashboards in ES?

[@joshb7415]

I've seen a bunch of tickets come up mentioning elastic.... So thanks now I know what the h it is

[@ahmedelmetwally1440]

Thank you so much. you helped me to understand complex something.

[@pathikrith]

Very interesting..Thanks Lisa.. one observation though - I see the architecture, specially the search technique is very very similar to Teradata MPP... just different names and nomenclature but similar tactics ....where i can see sharding is like hashing.. so elastic to me a free version of Teradata in a different wrapper.. but yeah there are many differences too...

[@adammills6953]

awesome explanations! great work putting this together

[@TheLizardNerd]

35:20 Why are you getting a "green" status? I mean, you are on a single node with 0 replicas, you could lose data, for this reason the status should be "yellow" right? For example, on my lab is yellow.

[@ranjeevpauluzzi9942]

This video is so enlightening!

[@ameyamagashe]

Brilliant training!

[@elimeleg]

Can you explain about Elasticsearch not being a DB, because I saw other lectures where people said with confidence that Elasticsearch is a DB?

[@ibrahimjamil3155]

best explainations till yet

[@gaurangruparelia2384]

Well explained! Let ear had a workout

[@rajatmaheshwari916]

Video starts at 10:16

[@ameljose8281]

My left ear says thank you

[@ericj1380]

wonderful explanation

[@OfficialElasticCommunity]

Glad it was helpful!

[@maheshkottapalli6945]

Very good presentation for beginners

[@jibaromar2249]

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[@amine_ers]

Greaaat teacher I love it so much

[@bablisahu2445]

They are asking for username and password, I am able to access with those, but I don't want authentication. How can I achieve this? I did xpack.security.enabled: false in elasticsearch.yml It removes the authentication from elasticsearch but kibana shows 'kibana is not ready yet'. It was accessible before making xpack false. Kindly help!

[@divyanshusah2809]

Hey, Elastic search Doesn't working With JAVA 15. Version... Fix this.

[@OfficialElasticCommunity]

Hi Divyanshu- I'd recommend opening an issue of discuss.elastic.co with the specific problem/ error that you're encountering. Thanks!

[@MrVitalirapalis]

very good presentation

[@shabeebrp3225]

Those who are facing issue with the audio, enabling the system setting to play stero as mono will fix the issue.