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Saurabh Chhajed
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Saurabh Chhajed

Saurabh Chhajed is a technologist with vast professional experience in building Enterprise applications that span across product and service industries. He has experience building some of the largest recommender engines using big data analytics and machine learning, and also enjoys acting as an evangelist for big data and NoSQL technologies. With his rich technical experience, Saurabh has helped some of the largest financial and industrial companies in USA build their large product suites and distributed applications from scratch. He shares his personal experiences with technology at http://saurzcode.in. Saurabh has also reviewed books by Packt Publishing, Apache Camel Essentials and Java EE 7 Development with NetBeans 8, in the past.
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System scalability


As the data in the application grows, it is essential that the log analytics system should scale well with the system. Also, there are times when your systems are under a heavy load, and you need your log analytics systems to analyze what is going on with the application. ELK Stack provides that capability where you can easily scale each component as per your needs. You can always add more Elasticsearch nodes (master nodes and data nodes) in the cluster. It is recommended that you have three master nodes (one primary and two backup) for large clusters. Also, load balancing or routing nodes can be added for high volume searches and indexing requirements. You can also get more Logstash and Redis instances, and add more than one Kibana instance too. A typical scaled architecture may look like this:

ELK Architecture with Cluster

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Saurabh Chhajed is a technologist with vast professional experience in building Enterprise applications that span across product and service industries. He has experience building some of the largest recommender engines using big data analytics and machine learning, and also enjoys acting as an evangelist for big data and NoSQL technologies. With his rich technical experience, Saurabh has helped some of the largest financial and industrial companies in USA build their large product suites and distributed applications from scratch. He shares his personal experiences with technology at http://saurzcode.in. Saurabh has also reviewed books by Packt Publishing, Apache Camel Essentials and Java EE 7 Development with NetBeans 8, in the past.
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