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Elasticsearch Server: Second Edition

You're reading from   Elasticsearch Server: Second Edition From creating your own index structure through to cluster monitoring and troubleshooting, this is the complete guide to implementing the ElasticSearch search engine on your own websites. Packed with real-life examples.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783980529
Length 428 pages
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Elasticsearch Server Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Getting Started with the Elasticsearch Cluster 2. Indexing Your Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Searching Your Data 4. Extending Your Index Structure 5. Make Your Search Better 6. Beyond Full-text Searching 7. Elasticsearch Cluster in Detail 8. Administrating Your Cluster Index

Index aliasing and using it to simplify your everyday work


When working with multiple indices in Elasticsearch, you can sometimes lose track of them. Imagine a situation where you store logs in your indices. Usually, the amount of log messages is quite large, and therefore, it is a good solution to have the data divided somehow. A logical division of such data is obtained by creating a single index for a single day of logs (if you are interested in an open source solution used to manage logs, look at the Logstash at http://logstash.net). But after some time, if we keep all the indices, we will start to have a problem in taking care of all that. An application needs to take care of all the information, such as which index to send data to, which to query, and so on. With the help of aliases, we can change this to work with a single name just as we would use a single index, but we will work with multiple indices.

An alias

What is an index alias? It's an additional name for one or more indices...

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