Best Practices Archives - Spoons Elastic

Runtime fields in Elasticsearch and Kibana – tests and explanation

01/27/2022

Advanced Usage, Best Practices, Spoon's Elastic posts

In the latest releases of Elasticsearch and Kibana, a lot has been done to integrate runtime fields smoothly and unleash all it’s power naturally. In a few clicks, you can create virtual values for formatting or calculating values without reindexing the whole index. The runtime field can now be called in total transparency like any other elasticsearch _source field. But it’s still a virtual field, calculated on the fly at query time, just like scripted fields. So, it’s a very…

centralized work with elastic search search template

Elasticsearch’s Search Templates: Industrialisation of Elasticsearch queries

02/18/2021

Jérémy Gachet

Advanced Usage, Best Practices, Spoon's Elastic posts

Elasticsearch has a lot of small unknown game changing features. Search templates are one of those. When it suits your use case, it changes a lot your integration quality TL:DR Elasticsearch’s Search Template are interesting for : Simplify integration Give a standard access to your indices without having to create any microservice Separation of concerns Avoid code duplication What is a Search Template? Search templates are reusable scripts that handle the query complexity and let integrator use very complicated queries…

Multi Match Query with elasticsearch – Influence scoring – part 3

12/03/2020

Jérémy Gachet

Advanced Usage, Best Practices, Spoon's Elastic posts, Understanding Elastic

As we saw in part 1, we can use boolean queries to influence scoring and boost the relevance of your searches. But it soon becomes very verbose and some kind of queries can be quite complicated to write. Multi-match comes to help you write more concise search Queries. TL:DR Terms can be reused to “boost” better results – in part 1 Filter can be used to scope a query without influencing the score – in part 1 Mix Must/Should/Filter in one Elasticsearch…

Boolean query with elasticsearch – Influence Elasticsearch Scoring – Part 1

10/21/2020

Jérémy Gachet

Advanced Usage, Best Practices, Spoon's Elastic posts, Understanding Elastic

In the previous article about scoring, Spoon Consulting saw how the scoring of Elasticsearch works by default. Now let’s see how you can leverage your results to map your use cases. TL:DR Terms can be reused to “boost” better results – in part 1 Filter can be used to scope a query without influencing the score – in part 1 Mix Must/Should/Filter in one Elasticsearch boolean query give a lot of flexibility – in part 1 Boosts give weight on…

Index Alias – Elasticsearch best practices

03/25/2020

Jérémy Gachet

Advanced Usage, Best Practices, Spoon's Elastic posts

Discover how to use Index aliases of Elasticsearch for cleaner code and no downtime Index maintenance in Spoonconsulting’s Elasticsearch best practices.