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...