Technical requirements

To see data collection methodologies in action, this chapter will use a web server configured to serve a static HTML web page. Follow these instructions to set up and configure this component before reading ahead:

1. Provision and configure a virtual machine (locally or on a cloud service) with at least 2 vCPUs and 4 GB memory. This chapter will use a machine running Ubuntu 16.04, but you can choose any compatible Linux operating system of your choice, as described in Chapter 2, Installing and Running the Elastic Stack.
2. We will use nginx to serve our static web page. Nginx is an open source web server and reverse proxy application. With the appropriate privileges (using sudo where necessary on your OS), run the following commands to install nginx:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install nginx

3. Confirm nginx is installed by running this:

   nginx -v

4. The code repository for this chapter contains a static website in Chapter6/html-webpage. The following...