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Elasticsearch 7.0 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

Elasticsearch 7.0 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

Elasticsearch is a Lucene-based distributed search server that allows users to index and search unstructured content with petabytes of data. With this book, you'll be guided through comprehensive recipes on what's new in Elasticsearch 7, and see how to create and run complex queries and analytics. Packed with recipes on performing index mapping, aggregation, and scripting using Elasticsearch, this fourth edition of Elasticsearch Cookbook will get you acquainted with numerous solutions and quick techniques for performing both every day and uncommon tasks such as deploying Elasticsearch nodes, integrating other tools to Elasticsearch, and creating different visualizations. You will install Kibana to monitor a cluster and also extend it using a variety of plugins. Finally, you will integrate your Java, Scala, Python, and big data applications such as Apache Spark and Pig with Elasticsearch, and create efficient data applications powered by enhanced functionalities and custom plugins. By the end of this book, you will have gained in-depth knowledge of implementing Elasticsearch architecture, and you'll be able to manage, search, and store data efficiently and effectively using Elasticsearch.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Changing logging settings

Standard logging settings work very well for general usage.

Changing the log level can be useful for checking for bugs or understanding malfunctions due to bad configuration or strange plugin behavior. A verbose log can be used from the Elasticsearch community to solve such problems.

If you need to debug your Elasticsearch server or change how the logging works (that is, remoting send events), you need to change the log4j2.properties file.

Getting ready

You need a working Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe, and a simple text editor to change configuration files.

How to do it…

In the config directory in your Elasticsearch install directory, there is a log4j2.properties file that controls the working settings.

The steps that are required for changing the logging settings are as follows:

  1. To emit every kind of logging Elasticsearch could produce, you can change the current root level logging, which is as follows:
rootLogger.level = info
  1. This needs to be changed to the following:
rootLogger.level = debug
  1. Now, if you start Elasticsearch from the command line (with bin/elasticsearch -f), you should see a lot of information, like the following, which is not always useful (except to debug unexpected issues):

How it works…

The Elasticsearch logging system is based on the log4j library (http://logging.apache.org/log4j/).

Log4j is a powerful library  that's used to manage logging. Covering all of its functionalities is outside the scope of this book; if a user needs advanced usage, there are a lot of books and articles on the internet about it.