Each time a new major #Elasticsearch version is released, someone asks if it works with #syslog_ng. So I gave it a quick test and based on that, Elasticsearch 9.0.0 beta1 works fine with syslog-ng. But of course, some terms and conditions apply… :-) https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/testing-elasticsearch-9-0-0-beta1-with-syslog-ng

I know I give #Elasticsearch a lot of crap, but I've got a sales meeting with the Elastic folks to this morning to talk about their SIEM offering (which I love) and I'm totally geeking out about it. I can't wait for my manager to see it and understand why I love it so much.

Unfortunately our last sales meeting was with Crowdstrike and they're pretty flashy and impressive so we'll see what happens.

#getFedihired - Know #MongoDB and/or #ElasticSearch and/or GNU/Linux #sysadm ? Expecially if you know #Ansible and/or #python and #shell scripting

A couple US or India #WFH positions opening up for 24/7 support ( includes #weekend and #holiday shifts )

US roles are US daytimes, India roles are the other 16 hours of day

DM me if you're interested ( job listings coming soon )

We should also have some SRE and dev positions and a MongoDB DBA position soon

A 4-month comparative performance assessment of #OpenSearch and #Elasticsearch conducted by Trail of Bits

Way to go OpenSearch team on the amazing performance improvements done through the v2.x releases

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/03/06/benchmarking-opensearch-and-elasticsearch/

Wow, #PostgreSQL just got a shiny new toy to play well with others! Apparently, adding #BM25 ranking makes it 3x faster than Elasticsearch—because, you know, exaggerated #performance boasts never get old. So, strap on folks, because your slightly quicker searches in databases are the next big thing!
https://blog.vectorchord.ai/vectorchord-bm25-revolutionize-postgresql-search-with-bm25-ranking-3x-faster-than-elasticsearch #Elasticsearch #database #search #speed #HackerNews #ngated

"RAG made easy with #SpringAI and #elasticsearch": meetup tomorrow (february 26) evening by the SF JUG in the elastic office. we'll try to balance the java side, vector search, and not getting too serious ;)
https://www.meetup.com/sfjava/events/306118459/

#elasticsearch 9 is approaching and you can give it a spin
more on features later (and also the release strategy with the remaining 8.x minors). but this is the easiest way to get going:
1. use start-local, which will give you 8.17.2 right now: curl -fsSL https://elastic.co/start-local | sh
2. stop it and remove all state: docker compose down -v
3. in the .env file, change the version line (1st line) to: ES_LOCAL_VERSION=9.0.0-beta1
4. spin up 9: docker compose up

Wiele osób na pytanie o mechanizm wyszukiwania tekstów od razu odpowiada "ElasticSearch". Rzeczywiście, jest to bardzo popularne rozwiązanie, ale czy nie warto też zainteresować się OpenSearchem, który stanowi ciekawą, w pełni otwartą, alternatywę?

#OpenSearch #ElasticSearch

https://bigdataboutique.com/blog/elasticsearch-vs-opensearch-2025-update-5b5c81

I been messing around trying self hosted options for logs. Mostly to scratch an itch, but also to know what is available in the market.

#openObserve is nice, but feels pretty clunky for what I want. Found this thing called #seq, which is kind of brilliant. But right now, I've settled with #victorialogs from #victoriametrics.

It can ingest #elasticsearch formatted logs. But you get the ease that #loki was trying to do. I have to say, I'm impressed.

https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/logsql/

What Happens to Relicensed #OpenSource Projects and Their Forks?
Contributor impact varies after projects adopt more restrictive licenses, finds Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software (CHAOSS) research on #Elasticsearch, #Redis, #Terraform and their forks.
So "Looking at all of these projects together, we see that the forks from relicensed projects tend to have more organizational diversity than the original projects," they conclude.
https://thenewstack.io/what-happens-to-relicensed-open-source-projects-and-their-forks/

CSVES (CSV to #elasticsearch): https://github.com/githubesson/csves/
the little utilities to get you going with your data :)

"#elasticsearch: 15 years of indexing it all, finding what matters": https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/elasticsearch-history-15-years
we turned it into a proper blog post with shay :)
including some wild stats (how many downloads has Elasticsearch had every second since its start 15 years ago?), past highlights, and next focus areas

Curiosity got the better of me and I ended up rescaling* my server and installing ElasticSearch. Let’s see how much I use it.

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* FYI 2 vCPU & 4GB isn’t anywhere near enough for a #SingleUserInstance of #mastodon + #ElasticSearch.
https://colquitt.xyz/@daniel/113975100843242921