Top 15 Solr vs. Elasticsearch Differences
Solr vs. Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch vs. Solr. Which one is better? How are they different? Which one should you use? Before we start, check out two useful Cheat Sheets to guide you through both Solr...
View ArticleX-Pack Alternatives
People love Splunk. But not its price. So people are always on a lookout for a good Splunk alternative. Many of those people migrated from Splunk to ELK Stack or Hosted ELK Stack solutions like...
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Search Guard – Security for Elasticsearch
Note: This is a guest post by Jochen Kressin, the CTO of floragunn GmbH, the makers of Search Guard, an open-source X-Pack Security alternative. Elasticsearch is a great piece of software. We really...
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Securing Elasticsearch and Kibana with Search Guard for free
Note: This is a guest post by Jochen Kressin, the CTO of floragunn GmbH, the makers of Search Guard, an open-source X-Pack Security alternative. In this article, we show you how to secure Elasticsearch...
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Elasticsearch 5.x and Kibana 5.x
We’ve refreshed not only the Sematext Cloud UI, but also our backend, or one of them at least. Last week, we’ve updated Elasticsearch to the latest 5.x version. Along with it we’ve updated the...
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Kafka Connect Elasticsearch: Consuming and Indexing with Kafka Connect
In the world of DevOps, metric collection, log centralization and analysis Apache Kafka is the most commonly used middleware. More specifically, it is used as a fast, persistent queue between data...
View Article[VIDEO] Elasticsearch for logs and metrics: A deep dive @O’Reilly Velocity
Since we work with Elasticsearch and Solr on a daily basis and know so much about them we like helping others improve their knowledge of these technologies, not only through Solr & Elastic Stack...
View ArticleElasticsearch security: Authentication, Encryption, Backup
The recent ransom attack on public Elasticsearch instances showed that Elasticsearch security is still a hot topic. Elasticsearch was not the only target – tens of thousands of poorly configured...
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Making Elasticsearch in Docker Swarm Elastic
Running on Elasticsearch on Docker sounds like a natural fit – both technologies promise elasticity. However, running a truly elastic Elasticsearch cluster on Docker Swarm became somewhat difficult...
View ArticleLogging Libraries vs Log Shippers
Logging Libraries vs Log Shippers In the context of centralizing logs (say, to Logsene or your own Elasticsearch), we often get the question of whether one should log directly from the application...
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Black Friday log management (with the Elastic Stack) checklist
For this Black Friday, Sematext wishes you: more products sold more traffic and exposure more logs Now seriously, applications tend to generate a lot more logs on Black Friday, and they also tend to...
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Elasticsearch on EC2 vs AWS Elasticsearch Service
Many of our clients use AWS EC2. In the context of Elasticsearch consulting or support, one question we often get is: should we use AWS Elasticsearch Service instead of deploying Elasticsearch...
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Elasticsearch for logs and metrics: A deep dive – Velocity 2016, O’REILLY...
We are known worldwide for our Elasticsearch, ELK stack and Solr consulting services, and we are always happy to help others improve their skills in these technologies, not only through Solr &...
View ArticleHiring: Elasticsearch Engineer – Instructor – Consultant
Sematext is hiring! More specifically, we are looking for people with Elasticsearch skills to join our Professional Services team. Our Elasticsearch Professional Services include: Consulting Production...
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Elasticsearch Training, San Francisco & New York, October
If you are using Elasticsearch and are looking for Elasticsearch training to quickly improve your Elastic Stack skills, we’ve running several Elasticsearch classes this October in San Francisco and New...
View ArticleVideo: Elasticsearch in Docker
If you are running Elasticsearch in Docker, you may have flipped through our Running High Performance Fault-tolerant Elasticsearch Clusters on Docker slide deck. Here is the video of the Running High...
View ArticleRunning High Performance Fault-tolerant Elasticsearch Clusters on Docker
If you are running Elasticsearch in Docker, here are some slides on that topic to make that smoother. See also Monitoring Official Elasticsearch Image on Docker
View ArticleElasticsearch / Elastic Stack Training – NYC June 13-16
Next month, June 13-16, 2016, we will be running three Elastic Stack (aka ELK Stack) classes in New York City: June 13 & 14: Elasticsearch for Developers Training Workshop June 15: Elasticsearch...
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Scalable and Flexible Elasticsearch Reindexing via rsyslog
Earlier on, we posted a recipe on reindexing data from within an Elasticsearch 2.3+ cluster. But this doesn’t work if you want to reindex in a different cluster or if your Elasticsearch is older than...
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Elasticsearch Ingest Node vs Logstash Performance
Starting from Elasticsearch 5.0, you’ll be able to define pipelines within it that process your data, in the same way you’d normally do it with something like Logstash. We decided to take it for a spin...
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