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ActionGenerator – Part Two
In the previous part of the two – parts series about ActionGenerator we showed how to develop and run your own ActionGenerator. Today, we want to show you what action generators are there for you to...
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Solr vs. ElasticSearch: Part 1 – Overview
A good Solr vs. ElasticSearch coverage is long overdue. We make good use of our own Search Analytics and pay attention to what people search for. Not surprisingly, lots of people are wondering when...
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Solr vs. ElasticSearch: Part 2 – Data Handling
In the previous part of Solr vs. ElasticSearch series we talked about general architecture of these two great search engines based on Apache Lucene. Today, we will look at their ability to handle your...
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Battle of the Giants: Apache Solr 4.0 vs ElasticSearch
Apache Solr 4.0 release is imminent and we have a heavily anticipated Solr vs. ElasticSearch blog post series going on. What better time to share that our Rafał Kuć will be giving a talk titled Battle...
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Solr vs ElasticSearch: Part 3 – Searching
In the last two parts of the series we looked at the general architecture and how data can be handled in both Apache Solr 4 (aka SolrCloud) and ElasticSearch and what the language handling capabilities...
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Solr vs ElasticSearch: Part 4 – Faceting
Solr 4 (aka SolrCloud) has just been released, so it’s the perfect time to continue our ElasticSearch vs. Solr series. In the last three parts of the ElasticSearch vs. Solr series we gave a general...
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Slides: Battle of the Giants – Solr 4.0 vs ElasticSearch 0.20.0
Slides for the Battle of the Giants talk Rafał Kuc (@kucrafal) gave at ApacheCon EU 2012 are now up! If you like working with Solr and/or ElasticSearch, or HBase, Hadoop, Kafka, Flume, etc., use and/or...
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SPM Discountorama Announcement
We are happy to announce the General Availability of SPM, our performance monitoring solution for Apache Solr, ElasticSearch, HBase, SenseiDB, and Java applications, and of course all system metrics....
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Solr vs ElasticSearch: Part 5 – Management API Capabilities
In previous posts, all listed below, we’ve discussed general architecture, full text search capabilities and facet aggregations possibilities. However, till now we have not discussed any of the...
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Solr vs. ElasticSearch: Part 6 – User & Dev Communities
One of the questions after my talk during the recent ApacheCon EU was what I thought about the communities of the two search engines I was comparing. Not surprisingly, this is also a question we often...
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Berlin Buzzwords 2013 – Two Talks from Sematext
Last year at Berlin Buzzwords we were proud to give three talks. Alex talked about “Real-time Analytics with HBase” (slides, video), Otis talked about large scale monitoring in his talked titled “Large...
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Structured Logging with Rsyslog and Elasticsearch
As more and more organizations are starting to use our Performance Monitoring and Search Analytics services, we have more and more logs from various components that make up these applications. So what...
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Recipe: rsyslog + Elasticsearch + Kibana
In this post you’ll see how you can take your logs with rsyslog and ship them directly to Elasticsearch in such a way that you can use Kibana 3 to search, analyze and make pretty graphs out of them....
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Elasticsearch Refresh Interval vs Indexing Performance
Elasticsearch is near-realtime, in the sense that when you index a document, you need to wait for the next refresh for that document to appear in a search. Refreshing is an expensive operation and that...
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slimES – The Slimmest Python Client for Elasticsearch
While “auditioning” for Sematext, I’ve done this Python client for Elasticsearch called slimES. Like the name suggests, it’s a very thin client, and I’ve used it for taking care of the repeating stuff...
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Book: Elasticsearch in Action
Lee Hinman and I have been working hard on a book called Elasticsearch in Action. The book has now entered the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) which allows you to subscribe to chapters as they...
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On Centralizing Logs at Monitorama EU
I’m really excited to be attending Monitorama EU this week! I’ll give a talk about centralizing logs on Friday at 15:15 . You can see the full schedule here. Please tweet about On Centralizing Logs at...
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Presentation: On Centralizing Logs
… with Syslog, LogStash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and friends, one might add. If you liked Recipe: rsyslog + Elasticsearch + Kibana, you’ll like this presentation. We’ve also published the actual...
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Job: Solr / Elasticsearch Engineer @ Sematext
Sematext is 100% engineers and there are about 10 of us now. In addition to being on a lookout for our Head of Marketing, we are looking for solid search engineers who love Solr and/or Elasticsearch,...
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Video Presentation: On Centralizing Logs
You might have seen our PDF presentation from Monitorama that was published last week. Now, the video is available as well. You will be able to see more about tuning Elasticsearch’s configuration for...
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