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/beginners-table-of-con...
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 :)

[@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 😂

[@vuhaiang2852]

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

[@warms9252]

Crystal clear training. Amazing teacher! Thanks!

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@CodingJesus]

This was the clearest explanation I ever heard.

[@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.

[@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. 🙏

[@chauphuoc5750]

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

[@Jmzzme]

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

[@markandreessen3218]

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

[@leetianbo6796]

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

[@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.

[@abhishekpatnaik007]

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

[@lovavardanian2844]

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

[@elahegolpayegani1482]

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

[@rembautimes8808]

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

[@naveedhassan7399]

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

[@belmaibrahimbas]

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

[@cascossi809]

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

[@tgThodoris]

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

[@shirnaliable]

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

[@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

[@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

[@_V__.]

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

[@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.

[@navanitdubey4017]

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

[@pritishgupta5101]

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

[@achmadfarizky]

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

[@alexj4725]

Thank you Lisa for this amazing presentation.

[@johnprucha]

VERY CLEAR! Thank you!!!

[@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.

[@mdjahangirpasha1957]

its Amazing, Hats off to you Lisa

[@ssmarasamy]

Very effective teaching. Thanks for your effort

[@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

[@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.

[@WittCode]

That was a great explanation! Thanks a ton!

[@renujain8911]

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

[@TheBIMCoordinator]

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

[@nikmalik7]

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

[@OfficialElasticCommunity]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@standard_limbo]

presentation starts at @4:36

[@adammills6953]

awesome explanations! great work putting this together

[@samsamhuns928]

Elegant and simplified presentation Lisa Jung !

[@abhisheksengupta4159]

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

[@kevink6663]

thank you very much, very useful and well explained

[@AdityaSingh-vd1yk]

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

[@abulle5609]

clean and clear presentation. thank you very much

[@ahmettachmuradov8630]

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

[@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!

[@vitoriaheliane7238]

This workshop is perfect!! Many thanks! 😊 🤩

[@OfficialElasticCommunity]

You are so welcome @Vitória Heliane!

[@giftfelix4848]

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

[@qkitselectronics5415]

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

[@katie4408]

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

[@HasanBasri-vf2kg]

Thanks a lot for this clear tutorial!

[@romankokhatskyi8137]

Thanks for the tutorials, really helpful!

[@kave_08]

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

[@avinashshankarpalli2130]

Just Awesome..exactly what I was looking for

[@narasimhayadav2281]

Very Nice Demo .Thank you for the clear idea.

[@sase1017]

Thank you so much for sharing knowledge!

[@maheshkottapalli6945]

Very good presentation for beginners

[@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

[@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

[@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...

[@ranjeevpauluzzi9942]

This video is so enlightening!

[@ahmedelmetwally1440]

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

[@techami6825]

wow this is awesome.

[@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...

[@EmiliaKaida]

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

[@ameyamagashe]

Brilliant training!

[@simpledeveloper8081]

Easy explanation, thanks a lot (from Uzbekistan)

[@DanielNiklaus]

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

[@ericj1380]

wonderful explanation

[@OfficialElasticCommunity]

Glad it was helpful!

[@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

[@nichole7965]

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

[@manojkumarnali1238]

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

[@Cheat1995]

Very cool course and very cool this is for free.

[@david2358]

Awesome content 👍

[@ameljose8281]

My left ear says thank you

[@AshishSharma-yh6ts]

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

[@gaurangruparelia2384]

Well explained! Let ear had a workout

[@mahavaditube]

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

[@ibrahimjamil3155]

best explainations till yet

[@__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.

[@endernator]

this is so goood ... thank you

[@MrVitalirapalis]

very good presentation

[@joshb7415]

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

[@shine-odtsolmon1299]

thank you very much

[@RishiRaj-ex9wb]

Great. Thanks.

[@user-op1wl4ek3i]

很棒的es教程，感谢输出：-）

[@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

[@abdnacerfried5250]

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

[@vibhordubey1549]

Awesome!!!

[@amine_ers]

Greaaat teacher I love it so much

[@rajatmaheshwari916]

Video starts at 10:16

[@Justicewarrior795]

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

[@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?

[@anthonya880]

is this crash course still relevant with newer version ?