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Learning Elasticsearch

By : Abhishek Andhavarapu
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Learning Elasticsearch

By: Abhishek Andhavarapu

Overview of this book

Elasticsearch is a modern, fast, distributed, scalable, fault tolerant, and open source search and analytics engine. You can use Elasticsearch for small or large applications with billions of documents. It is built to scale horizontally and can handle both structured and unstructured data. Packed with easy-to- follow examples, this book will ensure you will have a firm understanding of the basics of Elasticsearch and know how to utilize its capabilities efficiently. You will install and set up Elasticsearch and Kibana, and handle documents using the Distributed Document Store. You will see how to query, search, and index your data, and perform aggregation-based analytics with ease. You will see how to use Kibana to explore and visualize your data. Further on, you will learn to handle document relationships, work with geospatial data, and much more, with this easy-to-follow guide. Finally, you will see how you can set up and scale your Elasticsearch clusters in production environments.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Exploring Elastic Stack (Elastic Cloud, Security, Graph, and Alerting)

Query format used in this book (Kibana Console)

The query format used in this book is based on Kibana Console. When using other HTTP clients such as cURL or Postman, the Elasticsearch endpoint (like http://127.0.0.1:900) should be passed in the URL, when using Kibana Console it is automatically inferred from Kibana settings. Using Kibana Console while in development or for debugging is strongly recommended. You can access Kibana Console by going to Dev Tools tab in the navigation bar on the left.

The Kibana Console look like the following:

Kibana Console has a very simple UI and is divided into request and response windows. The request window makes it very easy to work with JSON requests and supports auto-completion and auto indentation. The response window makes it very easy to follow the JSON response as you can expand or minimize parts of the JSON response. You can also copy...