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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

You're reading from  Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281868
Pages 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Pranav Shukla Pranav Shukla
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Sharath Kumar M N Sharath Kumar M N
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Introducing Elastic Stack 2. Getting Started with Elasticsearch 3. Searching-What is Relevant 4. Analytics with Elasticsearch 5. Analyzing Log Data 6. Building Data Pipelines with Logstash 7. Visualizing data with Kibana 8. Elastic X-Pack 9. Running Elastic Stack in Production 10. Building a Sensor Data Analytics Application 11. Monitoring Server Infrastructure

Ingest node


Prior to Elasticsearch 5.0, if we wanted to pre-process documents before indexing them to Elasticsearch, then the only way was to make use of Logstash or pre-process them programmatically/manually and then index them to Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch lacked the ability to pre-process/transform the documents, and it just indexed the document as they were. However, the introduction of a feature called ingest node in Elasticsearch 5.x onwards provided a lightweight solution for pre-processing and enriching documents within Elasticsearch itself before they are indexed.

If an Elasticsearch node is implemented with the default configuration, by default it would be master, data, and ingest enabled (that is, it would act as a master node, data node, and ingest node). To disable ingest on a node, configure the following setting in the elasticsearch.yml file:

node.ingest: false

The ingest node can be used to pre-process documents before the actual indexing is performed on the document. This...

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