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Discussion on: Beginner's guide to Elasticsearch

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yellow1912

Great article. Elastic is easy to setup but difficult to properly secure, and maintain. It is also very resource intensive and thus costly to operate.

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KM

Maybe you should try Open Distro for Elasticsearch

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Lisa Jung

Hey yellow1912, thank you so much for sharing your valuable insights with me! I am really curious about your experience with Elastic as it seems like you have extensively worked with it. What made it difficult for you to properly secure and maintain it?!

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yellow1912

Hi Lisa, sure, I will write my complete journey with Elastic some time this week.

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Lisa Jung

Thanks so much, @yellow1912 . Looking forward to it! :)

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Aravind Putrevu

Many don't know that Elasticsearch Security is free. Please try out and let me know.

Also, regarding the architecture, there are many myths. There are quite a few companies which use ES. For example: Take dev.to search, it is powered by ES, Github Search and many many more. Not just search but analytics too, you need run a tool called Rally and benchmark for the right numbers that you want your cluster to serve.

Happy to help more!