Last updated: 26 January, 2018 Many of our clients use AWS EC2. In the context of Elasticsearch consulting or support, one question we often get is: should we use AWS Elasticsearch Service instead of deploying Elasticsearch ourselves? The question is valid whether “self […]
Handling Shards in SolrCloud
Last updated on Jan 10, 2018 One of the things you learn when attending Sematext Solr training is how to scale Solr. We discuss various topics regarding leader shards and their replicas – things like when to go for more […]
Search-Devops.com – Search DevOps Projects
As the world of software is growing, so is the ecosystem of DevOps tools and resources – for monitoring, for logging, for alerting, for continuous integration and deployment, configuration management, etc. Nothing wrong with having lots of resources and tools, but here at […]
Video: Elasticsearch in Docker
If you are running Elasticsearch in Docker, you may have flipped through our Running High Performance Fault-tolerant Elasticsearch Clusters on Docker slide deck. Here is the video of the Running High Performance Fault-tolerant Elasticsearch Clusters on Docker talk given at Berlin […]
Running High Performance Fault-tolerant Elasticsearch Clusters on Docker
If you are running Elasticsearch in Docker, here are some slides on that topic to make that smoother. See also Monitoring Official Elasticsearch Image on Docker
DocValues Reindexing with Solr Streaming Expressions
Last updated on Jan 8, 2018 Last time, when talking about Solr 6 we learned how to use streaming expressions to automatically update data in a collection. You can imagine this is not the only cool thing you can do […]
Scalable and Flexible Elasticsearch Reindexing via rsyslog
Earlier on, we posted a recipe on reindexing data from within an Elasticsearch 2.3+ cluster. But this doesn’t work if you want to reindex in a different cluster or if your Elasticsearch is older than 2.3. Or both, when you’re […]
Solr Streaming Expressions for Collection auto-updating
Last updated on Jan 8, 2018 One of the things that was extensively changed in Solr 6.0 are the Streaming Expressions and what we can do with them (hint: amazing stuff!). We already described Solr SQL support. Today, we’ll dig […]
Solr 6 as JDBC Data Source
Last week, in the Solr 6, SolrCloud and SQL Queries post, we described how the recent release of Solr 6 in its SolrCloud mode is able to understand SQL. But this is not the only SolrCloud / Solr 6. Another […]