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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)

Elastic Cloud

Elastic Cloud is the scalable cloud offering by the company that built Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch and Kibana are offered as a service. Your cluster is hosted on Amazon AWS and is completely managed by Elastic Cloud. You can create a new cluster across multiple data centers with the click of a button. Once you create a cluster, depending on the application needs, you can scale up or down very easily. The monitoring of clusters is available via Kibana monitoring. X-Pack is automatically included for every cluster running on Elastic Cloud.


Elastic offers a 14-day trial to new customers to try the service. You can sign up for a trial by going to https://cloud.elastic.co

The advantages of Elastic Cloud are as follows:

  1. Monitored and managed by Elastic - If a node or the cluster goes down, its taken care by the Elastic team. There is no need of a dedicated operations...