This Week in Elasticsearch - December 17, 2014

Welcome to This Week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

We are taking a break for the holidays, but we'll be back with the next edition of This Week in Elasticsearch on January 7.

Elasticsearch core

  • Core: Drop support for state written pre 0.90 (#8850, master)
  • Engine: Fix updates dynamic settings in InternalEngineHolder (#8885, master)
  • Geo: Fix for NPE enclosed in SearchParseException for a <code>geo_shape filter or query
    ( #8432, master and 1.4)
  • Core: Add best_compression option for Lucene 5.0 (#8863, master)
  • Mappings: Fix Get field mapping api with pretty flag (#8806, master and 1.x)
  • Engine: Remove engine related command classes (#8900, master and 1.x)
  • Scripting: ScriptService can deadlock entire nodes if script index is recovering (#8901, master, 1.x, 1.4 and 1.3)
  • HTTP: Add http.publish_port setting to the HTTP module (#8807, master and 1.x)
  • Packaging: Add java7/8 java-package paths to debian init script (#8815, master and 1.x)
  • Gateway: Cleanup LocalGatewayShardsState (#8852, master)
  • Cleanup: Remove some Internal* abstractions (#8904, master and 1.x)
  • Core: don't block shard stats when phase 3 of recovery is running (#8910, master, 1.x, 1.4 and 1.3)
  • Dependencies: Remove circular dependency between IndicesService and IndicesStore
    ( #8918, master and 1.x)
  • Core: Remove explicit .cleanUp() on cache clear (#8924, master and 1.x)
  • Core: use compound file by default for merged segments < 10% of index size(#8919, master and 1.x)
  • Search: close active contexts on SearchService#close() (#8940, master and 1.x)
  • Cat API: Default all APIs to verbose (#8927, master)
  • Discovery: concurrent node failures can cause unneeded cluster state publishing (#8933, master, 1.x and 1.4)
  • Core: Remove IndexEngine abstraction (#8955, master)
  • Cleanup: Remove Gateway abstraction (#8954, master)
  • Core: Wire utf-8 encoding, so unicode filenames work (#8847, master, 1.x and 1.4)
  • Settings: Remove mapping.date.round_ceil setting for date math parsing (#8889, master)
  • Shutdown: Shutdown IndicesService last (#8940, master and 1.x)

Elasticsearch Ecosystem

Here's some more information about what is happening in the ecosystem we are maintaining around the ELK stack - that's Elasticsearch plus Logstash and Kibana - including plugin and driver releases.

Slides & Videos

Colin Goodheart-Smithe on DIY Aggregations for Elasticsearch

From the December Search Meetup Munich: Alexander Reelsen provides an introduction to Elasticsearch and explores the gotchas of Distributed Systems

From the December London Elasticsearch Meetup: The Guardian on how they use Elasticsearch for 100s of searches per second

How Logmatic.io uses Elasticsearch in their SaaS log analysis tool (en français)


Where to find Us

We'd love to feature all the great Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana presentations and meetups happening worldwide in this section. If you're speaking or hosting a meetup, let our Director of Developer Relations, Leslie Hawthorn, know!

Germany

For folks in or around Bonn on December 18, the Bonn ELK Meetup group will be holding their inaugural meetup. Register now to save your place.

Israel

The first-ever ELK meetup in Tel Aviv-Yafo will be happening on Tuesday, January 13, and they're kicking off with a great topic: an overview of the Kibana 4 Beta and real-life use cases. Get registered today!

New Zealand

Leslie Hawthorn and Mark Walkolm will both be speaking at linux.conf.au (also known as LCA) in Auckland. This fantastic event runs January 12 - 16, and is definitely worth attending!

And accompanying LCA, we'll be having our first-ever meetup in Auckland on January 12. The schedule is still being finalized, but register now to save your spot.

Spain

Our own Pere Urbón-Bayes will be joining the Barcelona Meetup on January 8 to share his presentation, Make sense of your data with Elasticsearch. Register now to save your place.

The Netherlands

Come to the CRI Service Kennissessie in Houten on January 15 to learn about enterprise logging with Elasticsearch, rsyslog, Docker, and Kibana. Save your place by registering for the meetup today.

United States

The Codemash conference in Sandusky, Ohio, will have Itamar Syn-Hershko speaking on making distributed search and analytics on big data easy with Elasticsearch. Register today to join this session on January 8!

Where to Find You

PSST! If you're a regular reader of This Week in Elasticsearch, a.k.a TWIES, you're thinking of skipping this section. You may even be thinking to yourself, yes of course I will drop a note on Twitter when I am giving a talk on all things ELK. That's awesome, because we'd like to showcase every meetup, conference presentation and workshop on Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana happening worldwide. And now, we've made it even easier for you to get support for your meetup!

Head on over to our meetups page! (And we'll still totally send you swag if you're giving a talk on anything ELKy at a conference.)

Oh yeah, we're also  hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note.  We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in:

  • London - December 18, 2014 (Elasticsearch Core Training)
  • Cologne - January 13, 2015 (Getting Started Workshop)
  • Berlin - January 15, 2015 (Core Elasticsearch Training)
  • Chicago - January 15, 2015 (Core Elasticsearch Training)
  • Bangalore - January 19, 2015 (Getting Started Workshop)
  • Bangalore - January 20, 2015 (Core Elasticsearch Training)
  • Reston - January 21, 2015 (Core Elasticsearch Training)
  • Seattle - January 21, 2015 (Core Elasticsearch Training)
  • Paris - January 21, 2015 (Getting Started Workshop)
  • Paris - January 22, 2015 (Core Elasticsearch Training)
  • London - January 29, 2015 (Core Elasticsearch Training)