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- Apache Kafka
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Instaclustr Announces Customer-Initiated Resize For Apache Kafka® and Elasticsearch™
Instaclustr, delivering reliability at scale through fully managed open source data technologies, today announced the release of any-to-any resizing for Kafka and Elasticsearch clusters on the Instaclustr Managed Platform. Releasing this new functionality allows customers to dynamically resize their clusters without help from the Instaclustr Support team, providing customers a quicker resolution time. There are...
Learn MoreInstaclustrApril 27, 2021 -
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Complete Overview of the ELK Stack
Answering Key Questions About the ELK Stack Organizations are increasingly turning to the ELK Stack to search and analyze massive data volumes. ELK is an acronym derived from the three technologies that formed the initial stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Some are incorporating the stack’s search capabilities into apps and websites, providing simple, fast ways...
Learn MoreInstaclustrMarch 29, 2021 -
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Elastic Beats and Where They Fit With ELK Stack
After my last blog post about Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana, I wanted to investigate something else I kept coming across during my Logstash research: Elastic Beats. Beats initially appeared to me to be a way to send data to Elasticsearch, the same as Logstash, leading me to wonder how Beats is different and where it...
Learn MoreShane DucksburyFebruary 22, 2021 -
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Getting to Know ELK Stack: Exploring the Power of Logstash
As a new member of the Product Team here at Instaclustr, I wanted to explore our offerings by connecting Logstash with our Managed Elasticsearch and Kibana. Having had no prior experience with the ELK Stack, and wanting to find out more about the power of Elasticsearch, I thought “How hard could it be?”
Learn MoreShane DucksburyJanuary 21, 2021 -
- Elasticsearch
- Popular
- Technical
Changes to Elasticsearch™ Licensing
Yesterday, Elastic announced they would moving their “Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License” (read their full announcement here). This change means that components of Elasticsearch or Kibana in subsequent versions (7.11 and onwards) are no longer under an OSI-approved...
Learn MoreBen BromheadJanuary 15, 2021 -
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
What Is Elasticsearch™?
Elasticsearch is an open source scalable search and analytics engine. It takes the open source search engine Apache Lucene and enables it to scale across many machines in a cluster to handle large volumes of data at high speed. Much like the index at the back of a book, the core data structure of Lucene...
Learn MoreInstaclustrDecember 21, 2020 -
- Apache Kafka
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Building a Real-Time Tide Data Processing Pipeline: Using Apache Kafka®, Kafka Connect, Elasticsearch™, and Kibana™—Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog, we built a simple real-time data processing pipeline to take streaming tidal data from NOAA stations using Kafka connectors, and graph them in Elasticsearch and Kibana. We also tried viewing the data on a Kibana map but ran into a problem! In Part 2 we add the missing geo_points...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerNovember 11, 2020 -
- Apache Kafka
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Building a Real-Time Tide Data Processing Pipeline: Using Apache Kafka®, Kafka Connect, Elasticsearch™, and Kibana™—Part 1
ApacheCon@Home is over for 2020 and was a resounding success, with close to 6,000 attendees from every continent. As a Platinum Sponsor, Instaclustr ran an ApacheCon Booth and this blog was originally presented on 30 September 2020 as a booth talk. I was one of the 1% attending from Australasia: This, unfortunately, meant I was...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerNovember 05, 2020 -
- Apache Kafka
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
ELK Stack to EKK Stack (Elastic, Kibana, and Apache Kafka®): COVID-19 Data Analysis
A lot of people new to data science don’t know what to do after they write their first Python or R script. While that web scraper may have run well on your laptop—one time, you need to think about a streaming architecture that can handle multiple datasets. You need to not only store the results...
Learn MoreInstaclustrOctober 15, 2020