alt Hacker NewsA sort of survivor bias. A VP ordered to use elastic search, because it worked well at his company before. Turned out it worked well for us. Listen to the VP to make technical decisions. And use elastic search.
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quantified • today at 6:10 PM
Pick the right use case. It is super awkward, horrible UI for things like log analysis. Use Scalyr instead.
Reminds me when the ELK stack was called just ELK (idek what it is now) we had a server we put it on, and after making the additional dashboards my manager wanted, we learned the limits of ES / ELK. It needs a ridiculous amount of memory, because it will shove everything in memory. Same thing when I learned that MongoDB indexing puts every item in memory as well, which is a yikes, why would you not want to index?
I bet there's money to be made for building a drop-in to either of those two that requires less memory, would save companies a bundle, and make other companies a bundle as well.