What you need for this book
In this book, you will need to download and install the Elastic Stack, specifically, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Metricbeat, Logstash, and the X-Pack. All the software is available from the following page: http://www.elastic.co/downloads.
The Elastic Stack can be run on a various environment on commodity machines; here is the support matrix: https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix.