Book Image

Advanced Elasticsearch 7.0

By : Wai Tak Wong
Book Image

Advanced Elasticsearch 7.0

By: Wai Tak Wong

Overview of this book

Building enterprise-grade distributed applications and executing systematic search operations call for a strong understanding of Elasticsearch and expertise in using its core APIs and latest features. This book will help you master the advanced functionalities of Elasticsearch and understand how you can develop a sophisticated, real-time search engine confidently. In addition to this, you'll also learn to run machine learning jobs in Elasticsearch to speed up routine tasks. You'll get started by learning to use Elasticsearch features on Hadoop and Spark and make search results faster, thereby improving the speed of query results and enhancing the customer experience. You'll then get up to speed with performing analytics by building a metrics pipeline, defining queries, and using Kibana for intuitive visualizations that help provide decision-makers with better insights. The book will later guide you through using Logstash with examples to collect, parse, and enrich logs before indexing them in Elasticsearch. By the end of this book, you will have comprehensive knowledge of advanced topics such as Apache Spark support, machine learning using Elasticsearch and scikit-learn, and real-time analytics, along with the expertise you need to increase business productivity, perform analytics, and get the very best out of Elasticsearch.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Fundamentals and Core APIs
8
Section 2: Data Modeling, Aggregations Framework, Pipeline, and Data Analytics
13
Section 3: Programming with the Elasticsearch Client
16
Section 4: Elastic Stack
20
Section 5: Advanced Features

Aggregation query syntax

The following code block in regular expression syntax demonstrates the basic structure of the aggregation query syntax:

"aggs":{
"name_1": {
"type": { body }
[,"aggs" : {[sub aggregation]+}]?
}
[,"name_2":{...}]*
}

We can have multiple aggregations in one shot. In addition, if we have to use complex aggregation logic to solve a problem, we may use sub-aggregations. The aggs keyword is the short form of the aggregations keyword. The name_1 word is the name of the aggregation. Elasticsearch supports more than one aggregation on the same level, such as name_2. The type word is used to define the type of the aggregation such as terms, stats, and range. The body word specifies the criteria of the aggregation.

One of the powerful features of aggregations is the ability to embed aggregations...