After finding myself deploying Elasticsearch on the cloud for many clients who asked for help, I figured I should find a way to automate and simplify the process. It is now here for you to enjoy.

Using hosted Elasticsearch solutions is costly and some solutions really don't worth the premium you pay...

My talk on Elasticsearch tips and tricks, including a discussion on cluster security, is now online:

After several years of working with Elasticsearch and consulting many clients world-wide, it's time to share some trade secrets and lessons learned. Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine se...

There seems to be an on-going ransacking of Elasticsearch clusters, similar to what we have seen with MongoDB just recently. Clusters all over the world are being cleaned up and ending up with a single index definition with a ransom demand looking like this:

Niall Merrigan, a dear friend and a secu...

I've got a few training courses - hand-on worshops rather - on Elasticsearch and the ELK stack coming up, so I thought it'd be a good idea to blog about them and spread the word out.

Interested in a training near you or in your company? feel free to reach out, or check my Elasticsearch consultancy s...

We are about to release Lucene.NET 4.8, and it's time to show what it can do, and how it can be done. During the MVP Summit I recorded a hands-on introduction video, and it's now live here.

The Demo application can be found here: https://github.com/synhershko/LuceneNetDemo.

nuget packages can be dow...

Elasticsearch has known ups and downs with it's support of scripting languages. Two versions ago (that is, in the 1.x series) it added and removed support of various scripting languages in almost every minor release. I have also recommended avoiding the use of them myself for some specified reasons....

We see two main usage patterns with Elasticsearch indexes - monolith indexes and rolling indexes. Over the years Elasticsearch added features that greatly improve the experience of working in these patterns. Elasticsearch 5 introduces several new features that build on that further, and result in a ...

Elasticsearch 5.0 was released last week, as part of a wider release of the Elastic Stack which lines-up version numbers of all the stack products. Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elasticsearch - are all version 5.0 now. This release is quite a large one, and includes thousands of change items. I personall...

A talk I gave recently about our real-time system monitoring facilities at Forter is now available to watch online. The talk description and video are both below.

How to keep a real-time, low-latency and high-stakes system up and running and well-monitored? how to investigate failure cases as they h...

I have previously blogged about Lucene.NET - saying we are nearing a release, and are happy with what we have so far to call it Beta and ask all to upgrade and let us know how it goes.

Thanks to our contributors, with a lot of great work done by Shad Storhaug we are getting ever closer.

Tests and st...