Your data in Elasticsearch is valuable. Therefore the need for backups is provided by the snapshot and restore mechanism in Elasticsearch.

Containers are a solution to the problem of how to get the software to run when moved from one computing environment to another. Especially with Docker, as container solution, started a new DevOps trend. We, as software engineers, leverage this technology to ship our software to any environment.

Today we are tackling a common problem in IT. You have data that contain unique ids. Many use cases in the Elastic Stack require additional data.

In Pair Programming sessions, we often exchange tips and tricks. Regardless of experience and title, there is a decent chance for new insights. Today in this blog post, I share my ideas, how to deal with large structures of data encoded in JSON.

Since Kibana v6.4.0 there are significant improvements and enhancements. Under all these enhancements, a hidden gem and long-awaited feature is finally available: the Static Lookup Field Formatter.