Elastic Search Valuable Features
Saurav Kumar
Senior security architecture at National Payment Corporation Of India
Logsign provides us with the capability to execute multiple queries according to our requirements. The indexing is very high, making it effective for storing and retrieving logs. The real-time analytics with Elastic benefits us due to the huge traffic volume in our organization, which reaches up to 60,000 requests per second. With logs of approximately 25 GB per day, manually analyzing traffic behavior, payloads, headers, user agents, and other details is impractical.
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Randy Sanchez
Consultant at High Key Consulting llc
The most valuable features are its user-friendly interface and seamless navigation. The abundance of tutorials and helpful mocktails significantly contributed to the ease of managing the system. The user interface stood out for its accessibility, making it straightforward to perform tasks and queries. The availability of resources, such as tutorials and mocktails, not only facilitated my learning process but also enhanced the overall usability of Elastic Search. Additionally, the ability to seamlessly integrate Elastic agents into our system not only enhanced our overall efficiency but also facilitated smooth integration with the cloud. The versatility of adding Elastic agents and leveraging the source components provided a comprehensive solution for managing and optimizing our system.
Oleksii Pavlyk
Head of the direction of ensuring the security of digital systems, electronic databases and networks at Ukreximbank
I appreciate that Elastic Enterprise Search is easy to use and that we have people on our team who are able to manage it effectively.
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Elastic Search
April 2024
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Dave Ezrakhovich
Site Reliability Engineering at WiseTech Global
It is highly valuable because of its simplicity in maintenance, where most tasks are handled for you, and it offers a plethora of built-in features.
Atif Tariq
Cloud and Big Data Engineer | Developer at Huawei Cloud Middle East
Elasticsearch is a quick search engine tool. A good use case is saving metadata of your systems for data cataloging. Various systems, like those opened in metadata and similar applications, use Elasticsearch to store their text data. However, the major use case for many is to store application logs and build different dashboards on top of it.
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Rodolfo Marques
System Architect at Banco do Brasil S.A.
The search capabilities are the best that we could find. It's great for searching for any text with wild cards inside the logs. It's very good. We have a very good performance, even with billions of registries.
The solution is stable and reliable.
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Türker Kara
Application & Software Architect at Turkiye Finans Participation Bank
The solution is useful for observing logs. The observability is good.
It's good for collecting various types of logs. The metrics on offer are great.
We also collect logs from VMs, and we can look at the CPU and RAM situation to see what is being used.
The APM for our ITSM tools is helpful. It provides good visibility.
It is scalable.
The solution offers good stability.
The initial setup is easy.
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PHILIP OLANIYAN
Relationship Manager at Snapnet Ltd
When users understand the root cause of the problem, they spend less time resolving it. The number one benefit is end-to-end stability. It provides deep visibility into your cloud and distributed applications, from microservices to serverless architectures. It quickly identifies and resolves the root causes of issues, like gaining visibility into all your cloud-based and on-prem applications. It also simplifies issue resolution, leading to faster resolution times and optimized performance. It is achieved through numerous tools, metrics, and application performance fine-tuning systems, ensuring a smooth user experience. That's why many enterprises seek this kind of solution. It provides valuable insights into potential security vulnerabilities, enabling pre-emptive measures and safeguards for your data assets. Then there's data-driven decision-making, which is very important! It breaks down data silos by ingesting all the telemetry data (metrics, logs, etc.) into a single, scalable platform with a contextual data model. This flexibility allows you to collect and visualize any data from any source. Essentially, it pulls data from all sources and guides you in making data-driven decisions for capacity planning, resource allocation, and risk mitigation. Finally, it also fosters collaboration across IT teams.
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Walter Renzo Muñoz Arellano
Solution Archietect at Simi.OS
We provide clients with a chance to upload a file. They have all the accounts and transactions that they want to do and we have a limit of 10,000. In two minutes, they can have the 10,000 transactions in their accounts.
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reviewer1998342
Senior Associate at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The observability is the best available because it provides granular insights that identify reasons for defects. The observability is more powerful than Grafana because it is so granular.
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Enrique Peragallo
General Manager at Andes Tecnología y Consultoría Ltda.
Elastic Enterprise Search is a nonstructured database that can manage large amounts of nonstructured data. We also use a structured SQL database. I am unsure why our technical people selected Elastic Enterprise Search. The people that started the project selected open-source software and recommended the ETC component required in the system architecture. The Elastic Enterprise Search has been defined from the beginning of the project and fulfills the project's requirements. However, there is a lack of technical people to develop, implement and optimize equipment operation and web queries. This may be a problem with the provider, and they currently lack the resource to optimize the performance of the database.
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reviewer1925475
Executive VP Operation Aqua + South East Asia at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of Elastic Enterprise Search is the opportunity to search behind and between different logs.
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Anshuman Kishore
Director Product Development at Mycom Osi
The way we access it is great.
The scalability that Elastic is providing is quite useful.
We can do a lot of archiving.
It is stable.
The technical support is quite good.
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Basem Mahmoud
Operations Manager at Cairo 3A for Agricultural and Animal Production
The most valuable feature of Elastic Enterprise Search is user behavior analysis.
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Thabiso Mofokeng
IBM MQ Specialist / Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of Elastic Enterprise Search is the Discovery option for the visualization of logs on a GPU instead of on the server.
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Oscar Narvaez
COE Head at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most relevant feature for me is the platform capacity. I consider the capacity high-performance with a distributed model that can support it, and recently we are growing.
Search is really powerful. All the search engines and the rules that complement them allow the users to create different kinds of administration for the platform. YOu can create synonyms or rules to better understand or to better detect partial search criteria. It's like an AI that boosts searchability.
The platform has a powerful tool to correlate and create rules that understand what people will be searching for.
All the community support that we have available from different users in the open source community is great. Everyone shares and publishes all of these different use cases. That makes the platform and the platform understanding really powerful for anyone who wants to implement a different case.
It is easy to set up.
The solution scales well.
They have great integrations on offer.
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André Luiz Girol
Engineering Manager at MaisTODOS
I am impressed with the product's Logstash. The tool is fast and customizable. You can build beautiful dashboards with it. It is useful and reliable.
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Markos Sellis
Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The ability to store unstructured data and perform fast searches that could be customized in detail is quite helpful. This is also a direct request from more and more customers. The Lucene search engine provides the needed speed. In larger projects with multiple nodes, disaster recovery and prevention is an asset (and it is needless to explain why).
AI and machine learning capabilities have also emerged as a direct result of requests from customers. The addition of these features is useful and also can provide advanced security capabilities (such as tracking unusual behavior detection in logs).
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Randall Hinds
Program Manager - Enterprise Command Center at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The ability to aggregate log and machine data into a searchable index reduces time to identify and isolate issues for an application. Saves time in triage and incident response by eliminating manual steps to access and parse logs on separate systems, within large infrastructure footprints.
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Huseyin Temucin
Founder at Neokod ARGE Yazılım Ltd.Şti.
I would advise anyone to use the product. It is good. Data indexing of historical data is the most beneficial feature of the product.
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reviewer2345013
Domain Specialist Team Leader at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature of the solution is its utility and usefulness. I use the solution to see the logs better or the error explained. The solution allows us to be more on top of the alerts for the logs. The solution makes passing of the logs easier and faster.
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Uwe Wächter
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable aspect of the solution is the visualization with Kibana. What we have not yet started, yet, we plan to do, is to use machine learning.
The initial setup is very easy for small environments.
There is very little maintenance needed.
The solution is stable.
The scalability is good.
The solution offers good value for the price.
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Kiran BM
Chief Data Scientist at Everlytics Data Science Pte Ltd
The Spaces feature in Kibana is really useful. I can ingest all data and then offer multi-tenancy on a single stack to various departments (internal) or customers (external). This feature isn't available in AWS Elasticsearch, and Machine Learning isn't available either.
Other useful features such as Canvas (used to create live infographics) and Lens (used to explore and create visualisations using a drag-and-drop feature) are available only in Elastic's ELK Elasticsearch.
In the last 18 months Elastic has really caught up and also gone way beyond AWS by putting together all the missing components that make ELK Elasticsearch the most comprehensive stack in the entire Big Data ecosystem. Comprehensive because one stack addresses all of the three essential technical components of an end-to-end system: collect, store and visualise terabytes (and even petabytes) of structured or semi-structured data at ease.
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NhuNguyen
Solution Integration Architect at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
The solution is valuable for log analytics.
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Luke Kabamba
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
There are a lot of good things about this solution. First, it is an extremely fast search. We have quite an extensive number of logs, and we can search through billions of documents in just a few minutes, and get the results we're looking for.
The second is easy indexing. We can index almost anything that comes from a log. Anything produced in the system can be ingested in Elastic Search.
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DAVIDEVANS
Cyber Security Professional at Defensive Cyber Security Center Germany
The company provides excellent technical support and wonderful engineers, even their sales engineers are great. The dashboard is a valuable feature - it's awesome and very customizable.
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Ayesha Imtiaz
Senior Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I really like the visualization that you can do within it. That's really handy. Product-wise, it is a very good and stable product.
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reviewer2124444
Solutions Architect at a recruiting/HR firm with 1-10 employees
We can easily collect all the data and view historical trends using the product. We can view the applications and identify the issues effectively.
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Shashi Vardhan Andem
Senior Product Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The AI-based attribute tagging is a valuable feature. It passes through text data and identifies the tag-words and keywords and connects them to various attributes in the whole system. The system was supposed to run through a lot of existing data in terms of which tag-words would reflect which keywords. There was a model built on top of that. We were building a machine-learning model, which passed through all of the data and did the necessary attribute tagging. We couldn't find attribute tagging in other services.
We initially tried to do it in-house, but we couldn't get the accuracy that we wanted. Elasticsearch was quite efficient in terms of getting accuracy with the limited amount of data that we had. We had 10,000 to 20,000 records. Based on that, we had a good amount of accuracy, which we were happy with. There's a lot we can do with customization.
Aria Amini
Data Engineer at Behsazan Mellat
The most valuable features are full-text search, the ability to index large amounts of data, map data in areas that are not fully structured, and scaling out.
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Murat ERAYDIN
Owner and CEO at Karmasis
The search speed is most valuable and important.
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Subhadip Pakrashi
CEO at Kapstone Technological Services LLP
The tool's stability and performance are good.
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Franco Fontana
Business Intelligence at UTE
The flexibility and the support for diverse languages that it provides for searching the database are most valuable. We can use different languages to query the database.
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Erik De Decker
Owner & director at Pulsar ICT
The fact that you can dump any type of format in the database without any specific reformatting is fantastic. It makes it very flexible in collecting information and that saves us a lot of time because otherwise, we would really need to define specifically what we're looking for and reformat everything. With this solution, that's not necessary. We can directly, and in a really standard raw format, dump the data into the database. Only afterwards do we need to define what specifically we're looking for, however, at that point, it's not a big deal to actually add an additional log and to collect additional information.
The solution is very scalable.
There's lots of processing power. You can actually just add machines to get more performance if you need to. It's pretty flexible and very easy to add another log. It's not like 'oh, no, it's going to be so much extra data'. That's not a problem for the machine. It can handle it.
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reviewer1374858
Security Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features of Elastic Enterprise Search are it's cloud-ready and we do a lot of infrastructure as code. By using ELK, we're able to deploy the solution as part of our ISC deployment.
The extensibility and configurability of the solution are great. Having the ability to mine for anything is useful. It's extensible and useful in terms of digesting any type of information. Since we do a lot of consulting, it means we are able to apply it to diverse environments without having to suffer the overhead of integration.
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reviewer1510395
Technical Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I like how it allows us to connect to Kafka and get this data in a document format very easily. Elasticsearch is very fast when you do text-based searches of documents. That area is very good, and the search is very good.
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Selvam Krishnan
Technology Delivery Lead - Enterprise Monitoring at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
ELK being an open source certainly provided a platform for our organization to get involved.
X-Pack provides good features, like authorization and alerts. An X-Pack license is more affordable than Splunk.
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Sudeera Mudugamuwa
Co-Founder at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
The products comes with REST APIs.
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it_user779379
System Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
ELK provides
- good end to end log monitoring
- Logstash grok pattern
- elasticserach indexing
- easily configurable Kibana dashboards
- feature rich and appealing Kibana UI, as its USP.
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reviewer1629525
IT Secuirty Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features are the detection and correlation features.
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reviewer1590165
Senior DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We consider all of the features to be valuable. With respect to 12B Kibana, all of the components fit in very well. Logsearch gives us certain log filtering capabilities and we can vet what we push into our database. This allows us only to log and ship limited items. Essentially, Logsearch plays a big role although not the most important one.
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Kiran Raparti
Head of Technology Operations at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature is the out of the box Kibana. You plug it in and start the basic analysis on the data out of the box. This also gives a quick way to check the data and the models to figure out what fits the needs.
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HimanshuTejwani
System Administrator and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
A positive feature of ELK is that it directly interacts with Elasticsearch. The UI is very nice, and performance wise it's quite good too. A key feature is that this is a reasonably priced monitoring solution.
Sudeera Mudugamuwa
Co-Founder at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Elasticsearch includes a graphical user interface (GUI) called Kibana. The GUI features are extremely beneficial to us.
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Kumar Mahadevan
IT Infrastructure Analyst at AG Group
Their anomaly detection engine is really good for example, compared to SolarWinds. You can ingest different pipelines. You have dashboards, it is visual, there are maps, you can create canvases. It's more visual than anything that I've ever used.
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System Analyst at S7
We had many reasons to implement Elasticsearch for search term solutions. Elasticsearch products provide enterprise landscape support for different areas of the company.
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Alfredo Pérsico Gutiérrez
Works at Sincrobox SAC
The most valuable feature for us is the analytics that we can configure and view using Kibana.
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Prabhanshu Pandit
Programmer at a tech services company
Elasticsearch helps us to store the data in key value pairs and, based on that, we can produce visualisations in Kibana. It helps us to analyse the logs based on the location, user, and other log parameters.
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reviewer1636542
Associate - Projects at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution has good security features. I have been happy with the dashboards and interface.
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DevOps/System Administrator at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
The three major features which won us over to Elasticsearch were:
- The well written documentation
- The already available integrations with multiple other tools related to our needs (like Logstash, Kibana)
- The easy with which scalability was achieved.
it_user844839
Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
I value the feature that allows me to share dashboards with different people with different levels of access. They can perform their own queries, like adjusting the time filter or hitting some other filters. It's very useful.
it_user1031103
Murex Consultant at a tech services company
The special text processing features in this solution are very important for me.
As a system, it is easy to use.
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NaveedAhmed
General Manager at BroadBITS
I have found the sort capability of Elastic very useful for allowing us to find the information we need very quickly.
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Fares Zgheib
Lead Software Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
-Scalability and resiliency
-Clustering and high availability
-Automatic node recovery
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reviewer796698
Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The scalability of this product is something that is very impressive and the performance is also very good.
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Bogdan Tsegelnik
Engineer at IT Specialist LLC
The most valuable features are the data store and the X-pack extension.
The user interface is ok.
The integration of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana is very good.
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EChannel IT Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Search
- To implement the main requirements regarding my support portal.
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reviewer1429179
Associate Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable feature is that I can push data to Elasticsearch using Logstash.
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