Elasticsearch
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Elasticsearch is a tool we assess in the garden.
Blurb
Elasticsearch is the leading distributed, RESTful, open source search and analytics engine designed for speed, horizontal scalability, reliability, and easy management. Get started for free….
Summary
What it is: JSON document store with inverted indexes, aggregations, and cluster scaling via shards and replicas.
When to use: Unified search plus observability on Elastic Stack; security analytics with Elastic SIEM modules.
When to skip: Greenfield LGTM stack without Elastic licensing. Small teams avoiding JVM cluster ops.
Key features: Index lifecycle management, ingest pipelines, cross-cluster search, Elastic Cloud managed option.
Details
| Topic | Notes |
|---|---|
| UI | Kibana for native dashboards; Grafana can query Elasticsearch as a datasource |
| Ops | Plan shard sizing, hot/warm tiers, and retention ILM policies early |
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