Save the date for our upcoming meetup on Wednesday, November 8. Thank you to Infotraxsys for hosting us! 

The agenda for the evening is: 

6:00 p.m. - Doors open. Food & beverages will be provided. 

6:30 p.m. - Talk #1 starts by Infotraxsys, "Managing filebeat configuration using SaltStack and the salt filebeat formulas"

7:15 p.m. - Talk #2 starts by Aaron Mildenstein "6.0 is coming" 

8:00 p.m. Q&A and wrap things up. 

6.0 is coming

To help our awesome community prepare we will be doing a run through of the major changes that will land with the Elastic Stack in 6.0.

We have things like rolling-major version upgrades, even more Lucene data structure optimizations, sequence IDs, saying farewell to _types, dashboard modes, automated cluster alerts, Logstash pipelines and a pipeline viewer, Beats integration with kubernetes and a whole raft of new Beats modules.

Our Pioneer Program also makes a return, so if you are already using the beta releases of the stack and are submitting issues, you're a winner!

Aaron Mildenstein is a former SysAdmin who found his creative outlet writing code to help wring useful information from log files and performance metrics of all kinds. He discovered Logstash and Elasticsearch in 2011 and has never been the same since. He started developing and extending Logstash and Elasticsearch Curator for Elastic full-time in October 2013, and transitioned to being a Consulting Architect in September of 2017.