Elasticsearch and Kibana - Analytics Stack - Supported by Solve DevOps

What is Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of solving a growing number of use cases. It provides:

• Lightning-Fast Search: Millisecond response times across billions of documents
• Real-Time Analytics: Analyze data as it arrives with near-instant results
• Scalable Architecture: Grow from a single node to hundreds seamlessly
• RESTful API: Simple JSON-based interface for all operations
• Full-Text Search: Advanced querying with relevance scoring

Why This Image?

• Latest Version: Elasticsearch 9.1.1 with all security patches
• Production Optimized: JVM tuned, heap sized, and kernel parameters set
• Security First: X-Pack security enabled with TLS/SSL ready
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: 5-year support with latest performance improvements
• Quick Start: Pre-configured and ready to index in under 5 minutes

Features:

• AWS-Optimized Performance: Elasticsearch 9.1.1 configured for AWS VMs with Premium SSD support, accelerated networking, and availability zone awareness
• Enterprise Search Platform: Power intelligent search across AWS services and custom applications with millisecond response times
• Unified Analytics Engine: Combine logs, metrics, and traces from AWS CloudFormation, applications, and infrastructure in one scalable platform

Real-World Use Cases:

Enterprise Search:

• Power intelligent search across:
• E-commerce product catalogs
• Knowledge bases and documentation
• Internal company data and wikis
• Legal document repositories
• Media and content libraries

Log Analytics & Observability:

• Monitor and analyze:
• Application logs and errors
• Infrastructure metrics
• Security events and threats
• User behavior and clickstreams
• IoT sensor data

Business Analytics:

• Drive insights from:
• Customer behavior patterns
• Sales and revenue metrics
• Inventory and supply chain data
• Marketing campaign performance
• Real-time dashboards

Industry-Specific Solutions:

Healthcare: Patient record search, clinical trial matching, research papers

Finance: Fraud detection, transaction monitoring, compliance reporting

Retail: Product recommendations, inventory search, price monitoring

Media: Content discovery, metadata search, audience analytics

Government: Public record search, case management, citizen services

Getting Started:

Launch Instance:

• Choose instance type (recommended: 4GB RAM, 2 CPU)
• Configure security group (ports 5601, 9200, 9300)
• Launch with your key pair

First-time Configuration

• Access your instance over SSH to view first-time configuration instructions.
• Access Elasticsearch

ssh -i your-key.pem ubuntu@your-instance-ip

Quick Commands:

• Check cluster health:

curl -X GET "localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty"

• Check version:

curl -X GET "localhost:9200"

• Create an index:

curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/products"

• Index a document:

curl -X POST "localhost:9200/products/_doc" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'

{

"name": "Laptop",

"price": 999.99,

"description": "High-performance laptop with SSD"

}'

• Search:

curl -X GET "localhost:9200/products/_search?q=laptop"

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