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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)

X-Pack

X-Pack is an elastic offering that enables security, alerting, monitoring, and graph functionality for Elasticsearch. X-Pack requires a paid license to use all the features. When you install X-pack for the first time, you are given a 30-day trial. The basic or free version will provide only monitoring. The other features are available with a paid subscription. In this section, we will install X-Pack and discuss on how to update your license to basic if you are not planning to buy a license. For more details on all the subscription offerings of Elasticsearch, please visit the following link:

https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions

X-Pack monitoring, which is part of basic or free license, provides UI with easy-to-read graphs to monitor nodes and the indexes. It is available via Kibana. To use X-Pack, you need both Elasticsearch and Kibana. For instructions on how to install...