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Elasticsearch Essentials

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Elasticsearch Essentials

Overview of this book

With constantly evolving and growing datasets, organizations have the need to find actionable insights for their business. ElasticSearch, which is the world's most advanced search and analytics engine, brings the ability to make massive amounts of data usable in a matter of milliseconds. It not only gives you the power to build blazing fast search solutions over a massive amount of data, but can also serve as a NoSQL data store. This guide will take you on a tour to become a competent developer quickly with a solid knowledge level and understanding of the ElasticSearch core concepts. Starting from the beginning, this book will cover these core concepts, setting up ElasticSearch and various plugins, working with analyzers, and creating mappings. This book provides complete coverage of working with ElasticSearch using Python and performing CRUD operations and aggregation-based analytics, handling document relationships in the NoSQL world, working with geospatial data, and taking data backups. Finally, we’ll show you how to set up and scale ElasticSearch clusters in production environments as well as providing some best practices.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Elasticsearch Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how to configure different types of nodes in Elasticsearch, along with keeping best practices in mind when going for the production deployments of an Elasticsearch cluster. The chapter covered one of the most important aspects of cluster sizing—resource allocation and configuration for different types of nodes.

Finally, we saw some key metrics such as CPU, disk I/Ops, RAM, and utilizations to watch out for when your cluster needs scaling and the best practices to follow for scaling without downtime.

In the next chapter, we will learn about securing clusters and creating data backups.