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Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook

Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook

By : Alberto Paro
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Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook

Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook

2.5 (4)
By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

Elasticsearch is a Lucene-based distributed search server that allows users to index and search unstructured content with petabytes of data. This book is your one-stop guide to master the complete Elasticsearch ecosystem. We’ll guide you through comprehensive recipes on what’s new in Elasticsearch 5.x, showing you how to create complex queries and analytics, and perform index mapping, aggregation, and scripting. Further on, you will explore the modules of Cluster and Node monitoring and see ways to back up and restore a snapshot of an index. You will understand how to install Kibana to monitor a cluster and also to extend Kibana for plugins. Finally, you will also see how you can integrate your Java, Scala, Python, and Big Data applications such as Apache Spark and Pig with Elasticsearch, and add enhanced functionalities with custom plugins. By the end of this book, you will have an in-depth knowledge of the implementation of the Elasticsearch architecture and will be able to manage data efficiently and effectively with Elasticsearch.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Installing Kibana and X-Pack


The most famous Elasticsearch interface is Kibana, which from Elasticsearch 5.x version has the same version of Elasticsearch. Kibana is an opensource pluggable interface, free to change to be used for Elasticsearch. It provides data visualization and data discovery and with commercial products such as X-Pack, and also supports security, graph, and cluster monitoring.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.

How to do it...

For installing Kibana, we will perform the following steps:

  1. Download a binary version for Elasticsearch website and unpack it. For Linux, the commands are as follows:

            wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-
            5.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
            tar -xzf kibana-5.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
    
  2. On MacOsX, you can install Kibana via the following command:

            brew install kibana...

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