Elasticsearch Training in New York City — October 19-20

For those of you interested in some comprehensive Elasticsearch and ELK Stack (Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana) training taught by experts from Sematext who know them inside and out, we’re running a super hands-on training workshop in New York City from October 19-20.

This two-day, hands-on workshop will be taught by experienced Sematext engineers — and authors of Elasticsearch books — Rafal Kuc and Radu Gheorghe.

Target audience:

Developers and DevOps who want to configure, tune and manage Elasticsearch and ELK Stack at scale.

What you’ll get out of it:

In two days with training run by two trainers we’ll:

• bring Elasticsearch novices to the level where he/she would be comfortable with taking Elasticsearch to production
• give experienced Elasticsearch users proven and practical advice based on years of experience designing, tuning, and operating numerous Elasticsearch clusters to help with their most advanced and pressing issues

When & Where:

• Dates:        October 19 & 20 (Monday & Tuesday)
• Time:         9:00 a.m. — 5:00 p.m.
• Location:     New Horizons Computer Learning Center in Midtown Manhattan (map)
• Cost:         $1,200 “early bird rate” (valid through September 1) and $1,500 afterward.  And…we’re also offering a 50% discount for the purchase of a 2nd seat!
• Food/Drinks: Light breakfast and lunch will be provided

Attendees will go through several sequences of short lectures followed by interactive, group, hands-on exercises. There will be a Q&A session after each such lecture-practicum block.

Course outline:

1. Basic flow of data in Elasticsearch
   1. what is Elasticsearch and typical use-cases
   2. installation
   3. index
   4. get
   5. search
   6. update
   7. delete
2. Controlling how data is indexed and stored
   1. mappings and mapping types
   2. strings, integers and other core types
   3. _source, _all and other predefined fields
   4. analyzers
   5. char filters
   6. tokenizers
   7. token filters
3. Searching through your data
   1. selecting fields, sorting and pagination
   2. search basics: term, range and bool queries
   3. performance: filters and the filtered query
   4. match, query string and other general queries
   5. tweaking the score with the function score query
4. Aggregations
   1. relationships between queries, filters, facets and aggregations
   2. metrics aggregations
   3. multi-bucket aggregations
   4. single-bucket aggregations and nesting
5. Working with relational data
   1. arrays and objects
   2. nested documents
   3. parent-child relations
   4. denormalizing and application-side joins
6. Performance tuning
   1. bulk and multiget APIs
   2. memory management: field/filter cache, OS cache and heap sizes
   3. how often to commit: translog, index buffer and refresh interval
   4. how data is stored: merge policies; store settings
   5. how data and queries are distributed: routing, async replication, search type and shard preference
   6. doc values
   7. thread pools
   8. warmers
7. Scaling out
   1. multicast vs unicast
   2. number of shards and replicas
   3. node roles
   4. time-based indices and aliases
   5. shard allocation
   6. tribe node
8. Monitor and administer your cluster
   1. mapping and search templates
   2. snapshot and restore
   3. health and stats APIs
   4. cat APIs
   5. monitoring products
   6. hot threads API
9. Beyond keyword search
   1. percolator
   2. suggesters
   3. geo-spatial search
   4. highlighting
10. Ecosystem
    1. indexing tools: Logstash, rsyslog, Apache Flume
    2. data visualization: Kibana
    3. cluster visualization: Head, Kopf, BigDesk

Got any questions or suggestions for the course? Just drop us a line or hit us @sematext!

Lastly, if you can’t make it…watch this space or follow @sematext — we’ll be adding more Elasticsearch / ELK stack training workshops in the US, Europe and possibly other locations in the coming months.  We are also known worldwide for our Elasticsearch Consulting Services and Elasticsearch/ELK Production Support, as well as ELK Consulting.

Hope to see you in the Big Apple in October!