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Elasticsearch sniffing best practices: What, when, why, how

Elasticsearch powers search experiences for so many tools and apps used today, from operational analytics dashboards to maps showing the closest restaurants with patios so you can get out of the house. And in all of those implementations, the connection between application and cluster is made via an Elasticsearch client. Optimizing the connection between the client and the Elasticsearch cluster is extremely important for the end user’s experience.

Elasticsearch Performance Tuning - Index Design

You’ve created the perfect design for your indices and they are happily churning along. However, in the future, you may need to reconsider your initial design. Maybe you want to improve performance, change sharding settings, adjust for growth. Whatever the reason, Elasticsearch is flexible and allows you to change index settings to improve your Elasticsearch Performance Tuning. Let’s see how to do that!

Elastic Enterprise Search is now available on Elastic Cloud

We're excited to announce that Elastic Enterprise Search is now available on Elastic Cloud. Simply sign up for a free Elastic Cloud account and you can be up and running in a matter of minutes. The Elastic Enterprise Search solution encompasses both our Workplace Search and App Search products — a comprehensive package of search tools that dramatically simplifies the process of creating enterprise-grade search experiences for consumers, users, and teammates alike.

Searching Jira: Enhanced productivity with Elastic Workplace Search

Jira has long been a popular issue tracking tool for development teams, but its scope has broadened quite a bit over the years, and it has bloomed into a more well-rounded project management tool as well. It’s used widely by agile teams to plan, track, and release software, along with numerous other cloud (and traditional self-managed) productivity tools.

What's New in Elasticsearch 7.7?

Elastic is prepping for Elasticsearch 8.0, but in the meantime is rolling out upgrades and features with Elasticsearch 7.7. The new version introduces asynchronous search as well as changes with Elasticsearch clusters, mapping, SQL enhancements, snapshots and machine learning. This post will cover just a few of the highlights of the new release. Besides asynchronous search, ES 7.7 also introduces multi-class classification, reduced heap usage, inference time features, and better password security.

What your Elastic App Search analytics are telling you

At Elastic, we love data. It’s the backbone of what we do: search. And that data takes many forms. A knowledge base article showing how to reset your cable box — data. Logs from your network — data. IP addresses accessing your secure network — data. A video tutorial on how adults can use TikTok — data. The list goes on. But behind each piece of data is a story. And a person. Or a customer.

Tips and Tricks from Elastic Support: Setting up and running your cluster

Setting up and running an Elasticsearch cluster is easy at first, but some planning and design can help preventing many issues when going live gets real and your cluster needs to scale up. Cris da Rocha from the support team at Elastic will present some tips and tricks, learned from the experience of Elastic Support on how to do things better.

Searching Google Drive: Better collaboration with Elastic Workplace Search

While Google G Suite is an indispensable productivity and collaboration tool for modern businesses, all too frequently content tends to pile up in the far corners of Google Drive, making content search and discovery difficult. Spending valuable time sifting and searching through tens of thousands of documents to find the right one has become all too common, and most workers spend several hours per week searching for information.