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Mastering Elasticsearch 5.x

You're reading from   Mastering Elasticsearch 5.x Master the intricacies of Elasticsearch 5 and use it to create flexible and scalable search solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460189
Length 428 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Bharvi Dixit Bharvi Dixit
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Preface 1. Revisiting Elasticsearch and the Changes FREE CHAPTER 2. The Improved Query DSL 3. Beyond Full Text Search 4. Data Modeling and Analytics 5. Improving the User Search Experience 6. The Index Distribution Architecture 7. Low-Level Index Control 8. Elasticsearch Administration 9. Data Transformation and Federated Search 10. Improving Performance 11. Developing Elasticsearch Plugins 12. Introducing Elastic Stack 5.0

Overview of Elastic Stack 5.0

Till now, we saw the awesomeness of Elasticsearch 5.0, but Elastic, as a company, offers more than only a search tool. In February 2016, Shay Banon, the creator of Elasticsearch, announced the renaming of ELK (Elasticsearch - Logstash - Kibana ) Stack to Elastic Stack 5.0. According to Shay, this change had two main reasons. First, they had one more tool - Packetbeat was included in their stack of tools - and second, they wanted to use a unified version across all the products they offer.

The components of Elastic Stack are as follows:

  • Elasticsearch: The REST- and JSON-based distributed full text open source search engine.
  • Logstash: An open source tool for processing and ingesting data to Elasticsearch from a multitude of sources.
  • Kibana: An open source tool for analytics and visualization of data residing inside Elasticsearch.
  • Beats: Latest open source tool included in the Elastic Stack ,which are used as data shippers to Elasticsearch or Logstash. They need to...
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