News & Announcements

(Financial) - Elastic N.V. Reports Strong Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2020 Financial Results - Some highlights of Elastic's last year. Revenue of $427.6 million, up 57% year-over-year.

(Product) - Instaclustr Managed Kibana Now Available - Interesting offering as part of their Managed Elasticsearch service.

Articles & Blogs

(Market) - Solr vs. Elasticsearch: Who’s The Leading Open Source Search Engine?  From Logz and you can probably guess the answer.

(Kibana) - Introduction to Kibana - Nice basic intro, and also see their older Introduction to Logstash.

(Red/Yellow) - Red Elasticsearch Cluster, Panic No Longer - Excellent 2017 walk-through of using the allocation explain for Primary, Replica, and Allocated shards. Super useful.

(Ingest) - Using Elasticsearch Connector with Ingest Node Pipeline - From Couchbase, so specific to them, but good broader info and Ingest processor examples.

(Elasticsearch) - Taking Elasticsearch for a Spin around the Race Track (Q&A): Part 3 - Overview on queries, SQL, and more from Instaclustr.

(Intro) - Elasticsearch — A Search Solution - Simple overview, via Docker, bit of Kibana and useful stuff.

(Search) - Deconstructing Scoring In Elasticsearch - Useful look at math underlying this important part of managing your search results. From CodeBurst.io.

(Deploy) - Automate Elasticsearch deployment in GCP with Terraform - Useful at Terraform becomes more important, on all clouds. From TowardsDataScience.com which is a great resource.

Have you upgraded your cluster today?

Events & Happenings

(General) - More Virtual ElasticONs - Main site for these valuable events.

(Ingest) - Understanding ingest pipeline (August 20) - Upcoming webinar on ingesting data, architectures, best practices.

(APM) - Introduction to Elastic APM in the shift to cloud native - Nice intro as Elastic's APM matures, and everyone needs APM some time.

(Training) - Elasticsearch 7 and the Elastic Stack - From Udemy to get you started stacking.

Projects, Tools, etc.

ELKman - Our very own Elastic® Stack DBA & management tool: ELKman.

Opster Config Check - Opster has nice config check; you just paste in your settings, etc.

Awesome Elasticsearch - The most awesome list of Elastic Stack resources.

Support & Issues

Interesting Questions & Discussions

(HA) - How do I avoid split brain in dual zone on 7.5? - Somewhat common question on how to handle only two zones for HA, failover, etc. Short answer is get three zones, at least for master nodes.

(Upgrades) - Upgrading 1.x to 7.x - In case you need to upgrade from the Dark Ages to modern times ;)

Reminder that Elastic has a nice Security Notices Page.

Jobs

Gobs of Elasticsearch Jobs - So says Google ...

477 Elasticsearch jobs - From your friends at Dice ...

21,000+ Elasticsearch Jobs - Not be be outdone, LinkedIn reports a lot more, just in the USA ...

51 Elasticsearch Interview Questions - Not a bad list to keep you on your toes in interviews.

If you have Elastic® related jobs to post, please send to Jobs@ELKnews.io - these are free through August, so sign up now!

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