![Getting started with Elastic on Google Cloud](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/1/E/L/6/3/K/getting-started-with-elastic-on-google-cloud.webp)
Elastic on Google Cloud gives you the power of Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, Elastic Security as well as the Elastic Stack so you can quickly and easily search your environment for information, analyze data to observe insights, and protect your technology investments. Elastic Cloud lets you deploy your way, whether as a managed service, or with orchestration tools you manage in your Google Cloud environment. In this post, we'll go through the steps to get up and running on Go
![Myth busted: Kibana isn't just for developers — it's for everyone](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/D/3/X/8/v/5/myth-busted-kibana-isn-t-just-for-developers-it-s-for-everyone.webp)
Myth: You have to be a developer to understand and use Kibana. Reality: False! Kibana is for everyone. As the creators of the Elastic Stack, we get a lot of feedback when chatting with our users from all corners of the world during ElasticON events, in GitHub and forums, and while helping folks resolve their support cases. One of the things we've heard in the past is that Kibana is difficult to use. And we've listened to our community! The evolution of KibanaWay back in 2010, Elasticsearch was
![Elastic Contributor Program: Tips for creating written content](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/k/J/r/Q/Y/d/elastic-contributor-program-tips-for-creating-written-content.webp)
At Elastic, we believe in the democratization of knowledge. This is part of our open source roots. The open source model advocates that everyone should have access to code that represents knowledge — which entails research, experimentation, testing, and time. Code is important, but what really makes the difference is the knowledge behind the code, and thanks to open source, this knowledge becomes available for anyone to use, build on, and evolve. There are tons of ways to share knowledge beside
![Elastic Career Stories | Celine Jeremiah on Learning @ Elastic](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/1/N/9/N/K/a/elastic-career-stories-celine-jeremiah-on-learning-at-elastic.webp)
I started at Elastic as a recruiting coordinator in November 2016. Four years is a long time for most people my age to stay at one company, let alone their first company. But my reason is simple: I’m continuously learning and growing here.
Since 2016, I’ve grown from a fresh-faced undergrad eager to schedule interviews on our Recruiting Operations team into a global onboarding specialist on our four-person Non-Recruiting HR team. Now I work as a learning & organizational development co
![Community organizer spotlight - November 2020](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/D/2/W/v/E/4/community-organizer-spotlight-november-2020.webp)
Community is at the heart of everything we do at Elastic, and we wouldn’t be able to have such a vibrant and active community without our user group organizers. Each month we want to highlight some of our globally distributed user group organizers to get to know them better, learn about their Elastic stories, and understand their motivation for being involved in the Elastic community. We’ll also highlight any tips they can share for hosting successful meetups. This month, we are delighted to
![Migrating from Swiftype App Search to Elastic Cloud](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/1/g/P/l/n/L/migrating-from-swiftype-app-search-to-elastic-cloud.webp)
Whether you consume App Search from Elastic or from Swiftype, you’re getting a set of robust APIs and unprecedented relevance controls to deliver amazing search experiences. But what if you could have that same powerful set of search tools, only better, faster, more flexible, and still built on the powerful, scalable foundation of Elasticsearch? We’d like to invite you to migrate your Swiftype App Search deployment over to App Search on Elastic Clou
![How to create a custom ServiceNow incident report dashboard in Canvas](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/D/2/W/v/L/K/how-to-create-a-custom-servicenow-incident-report-dashboard-in-canvas.webp)
Welcome back once again! This is the third and final part of this series on using the Elastic Stack with ServiceNow for incident management. In the first blog, we introduced the project and set up ServiceNow so changes to an incident are automatically pushed back to Elasticsearch. In the second blog, we
![Getting started with Elastic Cloud on Microsoft Azure](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/1/q/L/M/v/7/getting-started-with-elastic-cloud-on-microsoft-azure.webp)
Elastic on Azure gives you the power of Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, Elastic Security as well as the Elastic Stack. You can quickly and easily search your environment for information, analyze data to observe insights, and protect your technology investment. Elastic Cloud lets you deploy your way, whether as a managed service, or with orchestration tools you manage in Azure.
You can easily get started with Elastic Cloud on A
![Fighting Helplessness with Data Visualization: A Reminder to Vote](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/k/K/7/O/X/Y/fighting-helplessness-with-data-visualization-a-reminder-to-vote.webp)
Raise your hand if you’ve felt stressed this year.
Not just me?
2020 has been rough. At the global scale, we’ve all felt the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the USA (where I live) we’ve also had forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, murder-hornets, actual murders, protests, counter-protests, riots, and shut-downs. We also have the Presidential election this year. Even in the best of times, that means constant bombardment with attack ads, and neighbors giving each other side-
![Benchmarking and sizing your Elasticsearch cluster for logs and metrics](https://www.cdn5.niftycent.com/d/k/l/B/7/q/j/benchmarking-and-sizing-your-elasticsearch-cluster-for-logs-and-metrics.webp)
With Elasticsearch, it's easy to hit the ground running. When I built my first Elasticsearch cluster, it was ready for indexing and search within a matter of minutes. And while I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I was able to deploy it, my mind was already racing towards next steps. But then I remembered I needed to slow down (we all need that reminder sometimes!) and answer a few questions before I got ahead of myself. Questions like:
- How confident am I that this will wo