Skillfield Elastic Stack Essentials Training

About the Course

This 4-day training course gives participants a robust introduction to the Elastic platform to leverage search, observability and security solutions.

Experience Needed? Little to no prior Elastic Knowledge is required to participate in this course.

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  • 100% of attendees would recommend this training to their colleagues!
  • 100% of attendees reported that this training course positively contributed to their skills and knowledge!

Lakshmi S. Bodepu - Managing Consultant Elastic Engineer - Skillfield Australia

Meet the Instructor

Lakshmi Bodepu has 10+ years experience working with and implementing large scale security and data solutions. He is an experienced DevSecOps professional, implementing observability and security solutions using Elasticsearch and petabyte scale Data Warehouse, Big Data and hybrid solutions. 

Lakshmi is a certified Elastic consultant with broad real-world experience deploying and supporting client Elastic Stack solutions with diverse use cases. His Elastic certifications include, Elastic certified Engineer, Elastic certified Analyst and Elastic certified Observability Engineer. 

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Register your interest for future training sessions and we will keep you up-to-date when new sessions are added.

Who should attend?

This course is designed for:

  • Cyber security professionals who want to upskill themselves on Elastic Security solutions
  • Practitioners within organisations that are considering Elastic Security and want to learn more
  • Practitioners within organisations that are new in their Elastic journey
  • The training is a great resource to prepare for Elastic’s Engineering and Observability certifications

Course Outline

  • Introduction to the Elastic Stack
  • Core concepts
    • Distributed systems
    • Centralised logging
    • Working with REST APIs
  • Installing and running the stack
  • Getting familiar with your lab environment
  • Learning how to use Elastic Stack documentation
  • Sample setup – indexing data into your Elastic instance
  • Take home exercises
    • Install Elasticsearch and Kibana on your local machine
    • Reading: Logstash
    • Reading: Elastic Agent
  • Labs
  • Deep dive into getting data into the Elastic Stack
    • Elasticsearch nodes
    • Index templates and settings
  • An introduction to Kibana
  • Logstash as an ETL tool
  • Elastic Agent to collect data from your environment
  • Searching for data
  • Aggregating and analysing
  • Managing the lifecycle of data
  • Using Kibana to work with your data
    • Lens
    • Dashboards
    • Discover
    • Management
  • Manipulating incoming data with ingest pipelines
  • Labs
  • Introduction to observability
    • Logging
    • Metrics
    • APM
    • Synthetics
  • Observing your environment with Elastic
  • Dashboards for real-time monitoring
  • Real-time alerting
  • Investigating and resolving faults
  • Labs
  • Introduction to security analytics
  • SIEM in a security operations centre
  • Elastic detections engine
  • Alert triage
  • Investigating security threats
  • Threat management and collaboration
  • Labs

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FAQ's

This course is designed for:

  • Cyber security professionals who want to upskill themselves on Elastic Security solutions
  • Practitioners within organisations that are considering Elastic Security and want to learn more
  • Practitioners within organisations that are new in their Elastic journey
  • The training is a great resource to prepare for Elastic’s Engineering and Observability certifications

Skillfield is a premium Elastic partner in the APAC region. Skillfield and Elastic have been working closely together for more than three years on significant deployments.

Our capabilities span all aspects of ElasticSearch, Elastic SIEM, Elastic Observability and Elastic Stack (ELK), with training conducted by certified consultants with broad real-world experience supporting our clients’ deployments with diverse use cases.

Yes! We cater for private team training sessions and can offer a customised course for your specific use cases. To discuss your requirements please contact us at info@skillfield.com.au.

  • 4-Day classroom style training conducted by a Skillfield Elastic certified consultant
  • Hard copy of “Getting started with Elastic Stack 8” book

Requirements for the Skillfield Elastic Stack Essentials training:

  • Laptop with a modern browser
  • Linux VM or cloud instance with at least 16GB RAM, 4vCPU with internet access
  • Basic experience using Linux and working with the terminal
  • Little to no prior Elastic knowledge is required to participate in this course

Skillfield does not require payment to register your interest in an upcoming training course. Fill out the registration form, and an invoice will be emailed to you for payment. As our training is in a classroom format, participant numbers are limited, so please keep in mind that your payment secures your place.

Skillfield does not require payment to register your interest in an upcoming training course. Fill out the registration form, and an invoice will be emailed to you for payment. As our training is in a classroom format, participant numbers are limited, so please keep in mind that your payment secures your place.

Payments are non refundable. However, if a participant is unable to attend a registered session, they may transfer their registration to a future session pending availability.

Skillfield is an Australian based IT services consultancy company empowering businesses to excel in the digital era.

Across our two main practices of Cyber Security & Data Services, our talented and committed professionals provide smart and simplified solutions to complex cyber security and big data challenges.

Have a question that has not been answered here? We are here to help. Please feel free to contact us to info@skillfield.com.au and we will be happy to assist.