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You're reading from Elasticsearch 7 Quick Start Guide Get up and running with the distributed search and analytics capabilities of Elasticsearch

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789803327

Length 186 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Elasticsearch

Concepts

Enterprise Search

Authors (2):

Srivastava

Miller

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Elastic Stack

2. Installing Elasticsearch FREE CHAPTER

3. Many as One – the Distributed Model

4. Prepping Your Data – Text Analysis and Mapping

5. Let's Do a Search!

6. Performance Tuning

7. Aggregating Datasets

8. Best Practices

9. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Installing Elasticsearch

In the last chapter, we introduced the Elastic Stack. We covered the basics and different use cases. Now we will focus on Elasticsearch and learn more about it. In this chapter, we will cover the Elasticsearch installation process on different operating systems. Elasticsearch can be installed and run on a computer or on the Elastic Cloud (assuming it's the hosted Elasticsearch service). The latter option uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to host Elasticsearch and Kibana, and users should note that to run the Elastic Stack, Java 8 or newer is needed. So, let's start the Elasticsearch installation process to understand how it can be installed on different operating systems. In this chapter, we are going to cover the following:

Installing Elasticsearch on Linux or macOS
Installing Elasticsearch using the Debian package...

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Authors (2)

Srivastava

Anurag Srivastava is a senior technical lead in a multinational software company. He has more than 12 years' experience in web-based application development. He is proficient in designing architecture for scalable and highly available applications. He has handled development teams and multiple clients from all over the globe over the past 10 years of his professional career. He has significant experience with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) for creating dashboards using system metrics data, log data, application data, and relational databases. He has authored three other booksMastering Kibana 6.x, and Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide, and Learning Kibana 7 - Second Edition, all published by Packt.

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Miller

Douglas Miller is an expert in helping fast-growing companies to improve performance and stability, and in building search platforms using Elasticsearch. Clients (including Walgreens, Nike, Boeing, and Dish Networks) have seen sales increase, fast performance times, and lower overall costs in terms of the total costs of ownership for their Elasticsearch clusters.

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