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Elasticsearch 8.x Cookbook - Fifth Edition

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

Elasticsearch 8.x Cookbook - Fifth Edition

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

Elasticsearch is a Lucene-based distributed search engine at the heart of the Elastic Stack that allows you to index and search unstructured content with petabytes of data. With this updated fifth edition, you'll cover comprehensive recipes relating to what's new in Elasticsearch 8.x and see how to create and run complex queries and analytics. The recipes will guide you through performing index mapping, aggregation, working with queries, and scripting using Elasticsearch. You'll focus on numerous solutions and quick techniques for performing both common and uncommon tasks such as deploying Elasticsearch nodes, using the ingest module, working with X-Pack, and creating different visualizations. As you advance, you'll learn how to manage various clusters, restore data, and install Kibana to monitor a cluster and extend it using a variety of plugins. Furthermore, you'll understand how to integrate your Java, Scala, Python, and big data applications such as Apache Spark and Pig with Elasticsearch and create efficient data applications powered by enhanced functionalities and custom plugins. By the end of this Elasticsearch cookbook, you'll have gained in-depth knowledge of implementing the Elasticsearch architecture and be able to manage, search, and store data efficiently and effectively using Elasticsearch.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Chapter 18: X-Pack

X-Pack is a set of modules/plugins that expands the standard capabilities of Elasticsearch, such as the following:

  • Security
  • Alerting
  • Reporting
  • Index management
  • Monitoring
  • Machine learning
  • SQL support
  • A common extension on mapping, analyzer, search, and ingester processors

It is a commercial component that is managed by the Elastic company, and it's installed by default in Elasticsearch. All the features can be used in trial mode for 30 days, but many of them are free of charge for life in the free tier. The complete map of capabilities offered by different X-Pack tiers is available at https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions.

In this chapter, we will see the most commonly used feature of X-Pack related to everyday usage. For furthermore insights, I suggest checking the official documentation on the Elastic website (https://www.elastic.co). The topics that we will cover in this chapter are as follows:

  • ILM –...