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Articles by Alex Brasetvik

Elastic Cloud Creator & Tech Lead, Elastic

Alex Brasetvik founded Found and launched the first hosted Elasticsearch service of its kind in 2012. Acquired by Elastic in 2015, he is now the tech lead for the Elastic Cloud team. When not working on cloud services, he likes to jump out of planes and play with real clouds.

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Memory Issues We'll Remember

Our Cloud service experienced issues with managing memory for the clusters. This blog is a postmortem of the incident.

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Elastic Cloud Outage: Root Cause and Impact Analysis

On March 31st and April 10th we had outages affecting some 1.7.1 clusters in the us-east-1 region. This post summarises the cause and impact of the events.

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Multiple Elasticsearch Clusters or a Monster Cluster?

Multiple single-purpose clusters can be simpler to manage than a single multi-purpose cluster.

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Uses of Elasticsearch, and Things to Learn

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Elasticsearch from the Top Down

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Optimizing Elasticsearch Searches

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Logstash on OpenShift

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Sizing Elasticsearch

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Troubleshooting Elasticsearch searches, for Beginners