The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a critical challenge to even the most battle-tested organizations worldwide. While we are beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel with recent news of promising new vaccines, it is now more critical than ever that organizations not lose sight of the importance of supporting employee health and wellness. Even in the postcrisis era, the next normal is certain to look different than the past. Part of providing the best employee experience possible is accountin
This blog was originally posted on tfir.io.Kubernetes is a popular container orchestration system at the heart of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects. It automates the deployment, lifecycle, and operations of containers, containerized applications, and "pods," which are groups of one or more containers. The platform itself, along with each of these workloads, may generate event data. There are different kinds of data associated with these processes. Logs can range from simple "yep, go
Power to Fly is a platform where employees and companies who value gender diversity and inclusion can connect. Job boards, talks from female thought leaders, and regular events make Power to Fly the go-to stop for women looking to further their career. We’ve written about Power to Fly before to highlight how some of our Elasticians have contributed to the Power to Fly mission. Recently, Annika Ekdahl, regional VP leading the sales team for EMEA North at Elastic, delivered a talk for Power to Fly
Writing about things you've learned is a great way to help others (and yourself). But some folks learn by watching. A 2020 Hubspot study reported that, in 2019, “video was the #1 form of media used in content strategy, overtaking blogs and infographics.” Consider whether recording your screen and talking through your process might be easier for your audience to consume and for you to produce. Video doesn’t need to be the only strategy, but a solid video strategy can lead to more engagement and d
From the team that develops the popular Elasticsearch language clients, we're proud to announce the beta release of Ruby and Python API clients for Elastic Enterprise Search 7.10! 🎉 🎉 🎉 With these clients, you’ll be able to control and communicate with your Elastic Workplace Search and Elastic App Search services in a whole new way. The client packages are open source under the Apache 2.0 license and use the same battle-tested and resilient HTTP implementation used in the Ruby and Python E
Full-text search is a common — but very important — part of great search experience. However, full-text search can be difficult to implement in some languages, which is the case with Japanese. In this blog, we’ll explore the challenges of implementing full-text search in Japanese and demonstrate some ways you can overcome these challenges in Elasticsearch. So, what is full-text search?Per wiki, here is the formal definition: In text retrieval, full-text search refers to techniques for searching
We're excited to announce that indices created in Elasticsearch 7.10 will be smaller. Bigger isn't always better, and our internal benchmarks reported space reductions up to 10%. This may not seem like much for small use cases, but it's huge for teams handling (and paying for cloud storage of) petabytes of data. In particular, indices created by our Elastic Observability and Elastic Security solutions are the ones that can stand to see the greatest savings due to the repetitive nature of t
Let’s start off with some good news: since 7.9.0, your Elastic Workplace Search deployment has been collecting and logging product usage data for you and your team. Usage data like, what your users are searching for, what links they're actually clicking on, and which searches are falling short. And better yet, in a future release we’ll be putting a prebuilt Workplace Search analytics dashboard at your fingertips in Kibana, one of the most powerful visualization tools available. But until we
Elastic believes in giving back, both by supporting the communities in which we live and work, and recognizing that participating in these activities can inspire and enrich our lives in unexpected ways. That’s why we offer our Elasticians volunteer time off (VTO) to foster a culture of caring.
The Helper Node blog series shines a light on the inspiring ways our Elasticians use their volunteer hours to help their community and the world at large. In this edition of the Helper Node series we
Managing hundreds or thousands of containers has quickly become the standard for many organizations. With infrastructures growing more complex, we want every user to find value with Elastic (regardless of where or how they operate). We created Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) — the official Operator — to simplify setup, upgrades, scaling, and more for running Elasticsearch and Kibana on Kubernetes. When you use ECK on OpenShift, Red Hat's Kubernetes container platform, you can fully orchestrate