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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)
10
Exploring Elastic Stack (Elastic Cloud, Security, Graph, and Alerting)

Multinode cluster

Elasticsearch is a distributed system, and a cluster contains one or more nodes. In this section, we will discuss how to add a new node to the cluster.

Let's say we have two servers with IP addresses 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2.

Follow the instructions laid down next to start a two-node cluster:

  1. Install Elasticsearch in the first server. Please follow the instructions in the Installing Elasticsearch section in Chapter 2, Setting up Elasticsearch and Kibana.
  2. Open the configuration file in the first server, and make the following changes:
    1. Change the cluster name under the cluster section:
                  cluster.name: es-dev
    1. Change the node name under the node section:
                  node.name: elasticsearch1
    1. Change the host address to bind under the network section:
                  network.host: 192.168.0.1
    1. Set the address...