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Advanced Elasticsearch 7.0

By : Wai Tak Wong
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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

Running Kibana in a Docker container

You can quickly launch Kibana with the Kibana Docker image. You can search, view, and analyze the Elasticsearch index in the forms of charts, tables, and maps. Run the following command to bring up Kibana:

$./docker_run_kibana

Direct your web browser to http://localhost:5601 to communicate with Kibana. The home page of Kibana is as follows:

Let's try to test Kibana with the sample data provided by the official website by following these steps:

  1. Press Add sample data hyperlink and you will see the page shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Now, l take the Sample flight data. Press the Add data button and you will see the page shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Amazing! What a wonderful dashboard to show the flight data. Move your mouse to the button in the left toolbar, highlighted by the a box, and press it. This will take you to the...