performance

We often get questions like: How much data can I put in an Elasticsearch cluster? How many nodes can an Elasticsearch cluster have? What's the biggest cluster that you've seen?

For this Black Friday, Sematext wishes you: more products sold more traffic and exposure more logs :) Now seriously, applications tend to generate a lot more logs on Black Friday,

We're excited to announce the release of the Field Stats API plugin for Elasticsearch. The Field Stats API used to be present from Elasticsearch 1.6 to 5.6, to provide efficient

Unless you are using a very old version of Elasticsearch you’re able to define pipelines within Elasticsearch itself and have those pipelines process your data in the same way you’d

Elasticsearch comes with good out-of-the-box Garbage Collection settings. So good in fact that the Definitive Guide recommends not changing them. While we agree that most use-cases wouldn’t benefit from GC

More than two years ago we posted a recipe on how to centralize syslog in Elasticsearch in order to search and analyze them with Kibana, all by using only rsyslog.

Sometimes we just need to replay production queries - whether it's because we want a realistic load test for the new version of a product or because we want to