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General

Elastic Stack

Elasticsearch official website
Logstash is a data pipeline that helps you process logs and other event data from a variety of systems
Kibana is a data analysis tool that helps to visualize your data; Kibana Manual docs
beats is the platform for building lightweight, open source data shippers for many types of data you want to enrich with Logstash, search and analyze in Elasticsearch, and visualize in Kibana.

Books

Deep Learning for Search - teaches you how to leverage neural networks, NLP, and deep learning techniques to improve search performance. (2019)
Relevant Search: with applications for Solr and Elasticsearch - demystifies relevance work. Using Elasticsearch, it teaches you how to return engaging search results to your users, helping you understand and leverage the internals of Lucene-based search engines. (2016)
Elasticsearch in Action - teaches you how to build scalable search applications using Elasticsearch (2015)
Elasticsearch in Action, Second edition - hands-on guide to developing fully functional search engines with Elasticsearch and Kibana. (2021)

Certifications

Elastic Certified Engineer

Elastic Certified Engineer notes - notes and exercises to prepare the certification exam

Related (awesome) lists

frutik/awesome-search I am building e-commerce search now. Below are listed some of my build blocks

Open-source and free products, based on Elasticsearch

Fess is an open source full featured Enterprise Search, with a web-crawler
Yelp/elastalert is a modular flexible rules based alerting system written in Python
etsy/411 - an Alert Management Web Application https://demo.fouroneone.io (credentials: user/user)
appbaseio/mirage is a 🔎 GUI for composing Elasticsearch queries
exceptionless/Exceptionless is an error (exceptions) collecting and reporting server with client bindings for a various programming languages
searchkit/searchkit is a UI framework based on React to build awesome search experiences with Elasticsearch
appbaseio/reactivemaps is a React based UI components library for building Airbnb / Foursquare like Maps
appbaseio/reactivesearch is a library of beautiful React UI components for Elasticsearch
appbaseio/dejavu The missing UI for Elasticsearch; landing page
Simple File Server is an Openstack Swift compatible distributed object store that can serve and securely store billions of large and small files using minimal resources.
logagent a log shipper to parse and ship logs to Elasticsearch including bulk indexing, disk buffers and log format detection.
ItemsAPI simplified search API for web and mobile (based on Elasticsearch and Express.js)
Kuzzle - An open-source backend with advanced real-time features for Web, Mobile and IoT that uses ElasticSearch as a database. (Website)
SIAC - SIAC is an enterprise SIEM built on the ELK stack and other open-source components.
Sentinl - Sentinl is a Kibana alerting and reporting app.
Praeco - Elasticsearch alerting made simple
DataStation - Easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.
DocKit - GUI client for elasticsearch to query, manage and visualize your data.

Elasticsearch developer tools and utilities

Clients

Python Elasticsearch Client - Official low-level elasticsearch client for python
Elasticsearch DSL - High-level python client for Elasticsearch
ESORM - Python Asyncio ORM based on the famous Pydantic
Ruby Elasticsearch Client - Official low-level elasticsearch client for Ruby

Development and debugging

Sense (from Elastic) A JSON aware developer console to Elasticsearch; official and very powerful
ES-mode An Emacs major mode for interacting with Elasticsearch (similar to Sense)
Elasticsearch Cheatsheet Examples for the most used queries, API and settings for all major version of Elasticsearch
Elasticstat CLI tool displaying monitoring informations like htop
Elastic for Visual Studio Code An extension for developing Elasticsearch queries like Kibana and Sense extention in Visual Studio Code
Elastic Builder A Node.js implementation of the Elasticsearch DSL
Bodybuilder A Node.js elasticsearch query body builder
enju A Node.js elasticsearch ORM
Peek An interactive CLI in Python that works like Kibana Console with additional features
Logstash pipeline parser Python Parsing expression grammar (PEG) and Abstract syntax tree (AST) for Logstash pipeline syntax.

Import and Export

Knapsack plugin is an "swiss knife" export/import plugin for Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch-Exporter is a command line script to import/export data from Elasticsearch to various other storage systems
esbulk Parallel elasticsearch bulk indexing utility for the command line.
elasticdump - tools for moving and saving indices
elasticsearch-loader - Tool for loading common file types to elasticsearch including csv, json, and parquet

Management

Esctl - High-level command line interface to manage Elasticsearch clusters.
Vulcanizer - Github's open sourced cluster management library based on Elasticsearch's REST API. Comes with a high level CLI tool

Elasticsearch plugins

Cluster

sscarduzio/elasticsearch-readonlyrest-plugin Safely expose Elasticsearch REST API directly to the public
mobz/elasticsearch-head is a powerful and essential plugin for managing your cluster, indices and mapping
Bigdesk - Live charts and statistics for elasticsearch cluster
Elastic HQ - Elasticsearch cluster management console with live monitoring and beautiful UI
Cerebro is an open source(MIT License) elasticsearch web admin tool. Supports ES 5.x
Kopf - Another management plugin that have REST console and manual shard allocation
Search Guard - Elasticsearch and elastic stack security and alerting for free
ee-outliers - ee-outliers is a framework to detect outliers in events stored in an Elasticsearch cluster.
Elasticsearch Comrade - Elasticsearch admin panel built for ops and monitoring
elasticsearch-admin - Web administration for Elasticsearch

Other

SIREn Join Plugin for Elasticsearch This plugin extends Elasticsearch with new search actions and a filter query parser that enables to perform a "Filter Join" between two set of documents (in the same index or in different indexes).

Integrations and SQL support

NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql - Query elasticsearch using familiar SQL syntax. You can also use ES functions in SQL.
elastic/elasticsearch-hadoop - Elasticsearch real-time search and analytics natively integrated with Hadoop (and Hive)
jprante/elasticsearch-jdbc - JDBC importer for Elasticsearch
pandasticsearch - An Elasticsearch client exposing DataFrame API
monstache - Go daemon that syncs MongoDB to Elasticsearch in near realtime

You know, for search

jprante/elasticsearch-plugin-bundle A plugin that consists of a compilation of useful Elasticsearch plugins related to indexing and searching documents

Kibana plugins and applications

elastic/timelion time-series analyses application. Overview and installation guide: Timelion: The time series composer for Kibana
Kibana Alert App for Elasticsearch - Kibana plugin with monitoring, alerting and reporting capabilities
VulnWhisperer - VulnWhisperer is a vulnerability data and report aggregator.
Wazuh Kibana App - A Kibana app for working with data generated by Wazuh.
Datasweet Formula - A real time calculated metric plugin Datasweet Formula.

Kibana Visualization plugins

nbs-system/mapster - a visualization which allows to create live event 3d maps in Kibana
Kibana Tag Cloud Plugin - tag cloud visualization plugin based on d3-cloud plugin
LogTrail - a plugin for Kibana to view, analyze, search and tail log events from multiple hosts in realtime with devops friendly interface inspired by Papertrail
Analyze API - Kibana 6 application to manipulate the _analyze API graphically
kbn_network - This is a plugin developed for Kibana that displays a network node that link two fields that have been previously selected.

Discussions and social media

/r/elasticsearch
Elasticsearch forum
Stackoverflow
Books on Amazon does not fit well into this category, but worth checking out!
TODO: Put some good twitter accounts

Tutorials

Centralized Logging with Logstash and Kibana On Ubuntu 14.04 everything you need to now when you are creating your first Elasticsearch+Logstash+Kibana instance
dwyl/learn-elasticsearch a getting started tutorial with a pack of valuable references
Make Sense of your Logs: From Zero to Hero in less than an Hour! by Britta Weber demonstrates how you can build Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana stack to collect and discover your data
$$ Elasticsearch 7 and Elastic Stack - liveVideo course that teaches you to search, analyze, and visualize big data on a cluster with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, Kibana, and more.

Articles

System configuration

A Useful Elasticsearch Cheat Sheet in Times of Trouble
The definitive guide for Elasticsearch on Windows Azure
Elasticsearch pre-flight checklist
9 Tips on Elasticsearch Configuration for High Performance
Best Practices in AWS
How to Secure Elasticsearch and Kibana with NGINX, LDAP and SSL :lock:
Elasticsearch server on Webfaction using NGINX with basic authorization and HTTPS protocol
Elasticsearch Guides Useful Elasticsearch guides with best practices, troubleshooting instructions for errors, tips, examples of code snippets and more.

Docker and Elasticsearch

Running an Elasticsearch cluster with Docker

Java tuning

Elasticsearch Java Virtual Machine settings explained
Tuning Garbage Collection for Mission-Critical Java Applications
G1: One Garbage Collector To Rule Them All
Use Lucene’s MMapDirectory on 64bit platforms, please!
Black Magic cookbook
G1GC Fundamentals: Lessons from Taming Garbage Collection
JVM Garbage Collector settings investigation PDF Comparison of JVM GC
Garbage Collection Settings for Elasticsearch Master Nodes Fine tunine your garbage collector
Understanding G1 GC Log Format To tune and troubleshoot G1 GC enabled JVMs, one must have a proper understanding of G1 GC log format. This article walks through key things that one should know about the G1 GC log format.

How to start using G1

#ES_JAVA_OPTS=""
ES_JAVA_OPTS="-XX:-UseParNewGC -XX:-UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseG1GC"

Scalable Infrastructure and performance

The Authoritative Guide to Elasticsearch Performance Tuning (Part 1) Part 2 Part 3
Tuning data ingestion performance for Elasticsearch on Azure - and not only for Azure. That's a great article about Elasticsearch Performance testing by example
Elasticsearch Indexing Performance Cheatsheet - when you plan to index large amounts of data in Elasticsearch (by Patrick Peschlow)
Elasticsearch for Logging Elasticsearch configuration tips and tricks from Sanity
Scaling Elasticsearch to Hundreds of Developers by Joseph Lynch @yelp
10 Elasticsearch metrics to watch
Understanding Elasticsearch Performance
Our Experience of Creating Large Scale Log Search System Using Elasticsearch - topology, separate master, data and search balancers nodes
:open_file_folder: Elasticsearch on Azure Guidance it is 10% on Azure and 90% of a very valuable general information, tips and tricks about Elasticsearch
How to avoid the split-brain problem in Elasticsearch
Datadog's series about monitoring Elasticsearch performance:
Performance Monitoring Essentials - Elasticsearch Edition
Operator for running Elasticsearch in Kubernetes

Integrations

Logging

5 Logstash Alternatives and typical use cases

Alerts

ElastAlert: Alerting At Scale With Elasticsearch, Part 1 by engineeringblog.yelp.com
ElastAlert: Alerting At Scale With Elasticsearch, Part 2 by engineeringblog.yelp.com
Elastalert: implementing rich monitoring with Elasticsearch

Time series

Elasticsearch as a Time Series Data Store by Felix Barnsteiner
Running derivatives on Voyager velocity data By Colin Goodheart-Smithe
Shewhart Control Charts via Moving Averages: Part 1 - Part 2 by Zachary Tong
Implementing a Statistical Anomaly Detector: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 by Zachary Tong

Machine Learning

Classifying images into Elasticsearch with DeepDetect (forum thread with discussion) by Emmanuel Benazera
Elasticsearch with Machine Learning (English translation) by Kunihiko Kido
Recommender System with Mahout and Elasticsearch

Use cases for Elasticsearch

Data Infrastructure at IFTTT Elasticsearch, Kafka, Apache Spark, Redhsift, other AWS services
OFAC compliance with Elasticsearch using AWS
Building a Streaming Search Platform - Streaming Search on Tweets: Storm, Elasticsearch, and Redis

Other

LogZoom, a fast and lightweight substitute for Logstash
Graylog2/graylog2-server - Free and open source log management (based on ES)
Fluentd vs. Logstash for OpenStack Log Management
Building a Directory Map With ELK
Structured logging with ELK - part 1
Search for :yum: Emoji with Elasticsearch :mag_right:
Complete Guide to the ELK Stack
Elasticsearch Engineer Interview Questions
logiq - Simple WebUI Monitoring Tool for Logstash ver. 5.0 and up
ElasticSearch Report Engine - An ElasticSearch plugin to return query results as either PDF,HTML or CSV.
Elasticsearch Glossary - explanations of Elasticsearch terminology, including examples, common best practices and troubleshooting guides for various issues.

Videos

Overviews

Elasticsearch for logs and metrics: A deep dive – Velocity 2016 by Sematext Developers
Elasticsearch in action Thijs Feryn a beginner overview
Getting Down and Dirty with ElasticSearch by Clinton Gormley
How we scaled Raygun
Getting started with Elasticsearch
Speed is a Key: Elasticsearch under the Hood introduction + basic performance optimization
$$ Pluralsight: Getting Started With Elasticsearch for .NET Developers this course will introduce users to Elasticsearch, how it works, and how to use it with .NET projects.
$$ Complete Guide to Elasticsearch Comprehensive guide to Elasticsearch, the popular search engine built on Apache Lucene
How Elasticsearch powers the Guardian's newsroom
Elasticsearch Query Editor in Grafana
Scale Your Metrics with Elasticsearch 2019 by Philipp Krenn (Elastic) optimization tips and tricks

Advanced

#bbuzz 2015: Adrien Grand – Algorithms and data-structures that power Lucene and Elasticsearch
Rafał Kuć - Running High Performance Fault-tolerant Elasticsearch Clusters on Docker and slides
Working with Elasticsearch - Search, Aggregate, Analyze, and Scale Large Volume Datastores - O'Reilly Media
End-to-end Recommender System with Spark and Elasticsearch by Nick Pentreath & Jean-François Puget. Slide deck

Code, configuration file samples and other gists

Elasticsearch config for a write-heavy cluster - reyjrar/elasticsearch.yml
chenryn/ESPL - Elastic Search Processing Language PEG parser sample for SPL to Elasticsearch DSL
thomaspatzke/EQUEL an Elasticsearch QUEry Language, based on G4 grammar parser

Who is using elasticsearch?

Yelp, IFTTT, StackExchange, Raygun, Mozilla, Spotify, CERN, NASA Zalando

I want more! (Elasticsearch related resources)

Contributing

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