Recap of 2016 Elastic Conference and some of my favorite talks from the conference which was presented at the Dallas Elastic Meetup.

1. Elastic{ON}’16 Recap
Shravanthi Denthumdas
Solution Architect
@shravanthid

2. Agenda
• Elastic Landscape Evolution
• What’s New in
– Elasticsearch
– Logstash
– Beats
– Kibana
• My Favorite Talks/Use Cases

4. ELK Stack is now…

5. Elastic Stack

6. Versions

7. Versions

8. Extensions
Shield, Marvel, Watcher, Graph and more..

9. Extensions
 bin/kibana-plugin install file:../xpack-5.0.zip
 bin/elasticsearch-plugin install file:../xpack-5.0.zip

10. Extensions

11. Cloud
• Elastic Cloud (formerly “Found”)
• Elastic Cloud Enterprise (beta)

12. What’s Evolving?

13. 0.x to 1.x
Corruption
Split Brain
Security Exploits
OOM
1.4
Checksums Everywhere
Cluster Resiliency
Scripting Locked Down
Doc Values made faster

14. 2.X – Fix All The Things
• Mappings Refactoring
• Translog Reliability
• Usability
– Query DSL
– Merge Autothrottling
– Structured Exceptions
– Admin Safeguards
• Heap Usage - Better Data Structures
• Security
• Improved Test Coverage
• Opinionated and Lenient
• Query Profiler

15. Reindex API
Update by Query
and more…

16. 5.0
• Ingest Node

17. 5.0
• Ingest Node API

18. 5.0
• Painless Scripting
• Java HTTP Client
• Data Structures
– String Mappings
{ "type": "text", "index: true }
{ "type": "keyword", "index: true }
– Point Field Encoding
and
more…

19. What’s Latest?

20. Data Delivery
Today

21. Solution
1.x
5.0
2.x

22. 5.x - Management
• Node Stats API
• Hot Thread API
• Monitoring Logstash in Kibana
• Better Config Management
– Dynamic config reloading
– Centralizing configs as documents in Elasticsearch
• Clustering and Load Balancing
and more…

23. What’s Brewing?

24. What is Beats?
“Beats is the platform for building lightweight,
open source data shippers for many types of
operational data you want to enrich with
Logstash, search and analyze in Elasticsearch,
and visualize in Kibana.”
- Elastic

25. Elastic Beats
Packetbeat Live Demo

26. Community Beats

27. 5.0
• MetricBeat
• Redis & Kafka output support

28. What’s cookin?

29. Plugins

30. Filters
Pin Filters
Edit Filters
Aliases

31. Customization
Colors
Axis Labeling

32. And More..
• Manageability
– Export Everything
– Status Page

33. Sessions
64 sessions in 3 days
My top 5
• Fighting Human Trafficking, Fraud, & More: Elastic @
Giant Oak
• How HotelTonight Finds the Best Hotels in the Moment
• Bringing Healthcare Analytics to the Point-of-Care @
Mayo Clinic
• Dude where are my messages? Message Analytics
@Netflix
• How the Elastic Stack Changed Goldman Sachs

34. Questions?

35. References
The content in this presentation is based on
Elastic{ON} ’16 talks.