Here is the reason and how to fix it once and for all! Context I’ve been using Ubuntu for a while. As a Linux distribution user using an Intel chip, building a docker image and pushing it on dockerhub for production (through a docker-compose file or on Kubernetes) is not a…

4 Tips to spin up an Elasticsearch instance with Docker. I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about the official Elasticsearch version hosted on the Docker hub. The reasons for their complaints are various and somehow real. However, trust me, there are ways to make Elasticsearch docker usage painless, easier…

This is just a small tip I want to share with you’ll guys. Problem One of the Elasticsearch strengths lies in the REST APIs that it exposes. These APIs can be used by the UI components and can be called directly to configure and access Elasticsearch features. However, in case your…

The race to better is on and you should look at these improvements. Elastic has released a new version of Elasticsearch and it’s time to go through what is new in this version. That’s the sole purpose of this tutorial. Version 7.16 of Elasticsearch brings many improvements. In this tutorial…

Simple, it’s just a few steps. Really! In my previous articles, I’ve been talking about how to use the Elastic stack to consume and process logs from your systems and softwares and we’ve been using Logstash as the core technology for these processing pipelines. However, Logstash can be pretty heavy…

More and more people are getting used to Kibana as their preferred data visualization tool and even more as a BI tool. In this article, we’re going to go through the reasons why Kibana is getting so popular across IT engineers (developers, DevOps, system administrators) and what its tons of…

I was actually mistaken and I don’t want you to be so. “I just found a wonderful tool that can help us to develop the search engine for our free images website and that’s Elasticsearch”. That was my friend Aiman when we were building our first real project, years ago…

Years ago, as I was working at a large amount of data processing company as a software engineer intern. I learned one of those lessons we don’t have a chance to learn at school. I was in charge of producing some reports from a production database. After I looked at…

It’s called the Window into the Elastic Stack. ELK stack has definitely taken over the open-source tools in the analytics industry. It provides one of the most incredible free tools we’ve ever seen in the industry. In this tutorial, we’ll be going through the process of installing Kibana on an…