Course Code: elastic3
Duration: 28 hours
Prerequisites:

Participants shall either finished course elastic1 or have good grounding in administering Elasticsearch.

Basic programming knowledge is required.

Overview:

Audience

Administrators or developers who want to know how to use Elasticsearch.

Course Outline:

Architecture of Elasticsearch

  • Lucene
  • Plugins
  • Configuration files
  • Sorting and Relevance
  • Cluster
  • Distributed Document Store
  • Full-Body Search
  • Index Management
  • Sharding

Installation

  • Requirements
  • Different ways of installing Elasticsearch
  • Configuration Files
  • Web interface

Using Elasticsearch as primary storage

  • Querying database
  • Performance
  • Relationships
  • Aggregation
  • Access control

Search Configuration

  • Structured Search
  • Full-Text Search
  • Multifield Search
  • Proximity Matching
  • Partcial Matching
  • Relevance Adjustment

Human Language Processing

  • Language Configuration
  • Chinese characters configuration (optional if needed)
  • Tokenization
  • Normalization
  • Finding root of the words
  • Stopwords
  • Synonyms
  • Misspellings and Typos

Result Tuning

  • Relationships
  • Geolocation
  • Aggregation

Administration

  • Monitoring
  • Deployment
  • Maintenance and basic optimization

Extending Elasticsearch

  • Available Plugins
  • Creating and maitaining own plugins

Basic Analytics

  • Kibana
  • Logstash

Scaling and High Availability

  • Cluster
  • Sharding