The main use case for Elastic Search is mainly for log management.
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Log management capabilities impress but setup presents challenges
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
I appreciate the indexing capabilities and the speed of indexing in their product, which demonstrates how quickly logs are collected and stored. The search capabilities are also valuable.
What needs improvement?
The architecture of Elastic Search could be improved as it is complicated for most general users to build up the environment and maintain the cluster.
Currently, I do not have suggestions for additional functions that could be added to the product.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Elastic Search for about two years.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
I usually use Elastic Search on-premises, which introduces complexity in deployment. Using the cloud version would reduce the complexity of setting up.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability for Elastic Search as eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability as eight.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate technical support from Elastic Search as three out of ten.
The main issue is a general sum of all factors. Being based in Hong Kong means I can only assess the service in my region and cannot speak for other regions based on my experience.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Negative
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I am currently working with multiple solutions including Elastic Search, Splunk, and Graylog.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup for Elastic Search is complex.
What other advice do I have?
The real-time analytics capabilities depend on whether you use the paid version or open-source version.
I work with SME users of Elastic Search, though the solution can technically support enterprise customers.
I have not extensively used AI technology with Elastic Search.
I can recommend Elastic Search to other users.
The pricing for Elastic Search rates as four out of ten. Overall, I would rate Elastic Search as seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Effective unstructured data management with room for large-scale optimization
What is our primary use case?
The primary use case for Elasticsearch is to serve as a non-SQL database platform to replace traditional SQL processes. It is used in situations where unstructured data needs to be studied and searched.
How has it helped my organization?
Elasticsearch has been helpful due to its ability to handle unstructured data effectively compared to SQL. It provides a fast and interesting search capability which is advantageous for our needs.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of Elasticsearch is its convenience in handling unstructured data, making it easy to use.
What needs improvement?
Elasticsearch could be improved in terms of scalability. If the database becomes too large, its efficiency is not as good as SQL. Additionally, the initial setup could be a little easier.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using Elasticsearch for about two to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have faced shutdown issues, but these are mostly related to problems with our own machines and not due to Elasticsearch itself.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Elasticsearch is not scalable when dealing with very large databases. The efficiency decreases for huge databases because it deals with unstructured data, which presents an inherent problem.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is of medium difficulty since it requires some understanding of the disk and related concepts.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Elasticsearch can be expensive. It requires some support and unlocking of features.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend Elasticsearch for anyone looking to build a simple database, as it should be a top choice.
I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.
Real-time search and enhances decision-making but demands optimization
How has it helped my organization?
Using real-time search functionality to support operational decisions has been helpful. However, it is not functioning correctly, as the real-time search consumes significant system resources.
What is most valuable?
The search feature is one of the valuable features of Elasticsearch.
What needs improvement?
There are areas for improvement in Elasticsearch.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The real-time search functionality is not operational due to its impact on system resources. There are some stability issues.
How are customer service and support?
My overall experience with support was positive.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is complex.
What about the implementation team?
I do not have specific details about the implementation team. The process might require certain expertise.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is not cheap and is expensive.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I compared the differences between Elastic and other SIEM solutions.
What other advice do I have?
I am more like an implementer than a customer.
I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Easy to use but room for improvement in stability
What is our primary use case?
We save credentials, new account information, logs from Palantir Panorama, Firefox logs, traffic logs, GlobalProtect logs from our servers, and Active Directory new users. We're still improving this, but not very fast.
What is most valuable?
I appreciate that Elastic Enterprise Search is easy to use and that we have people on our team who are able to manage it effectively.
What needs improvement?
We are keeping an eye on other products like QRadar and Splunk in case they offer features that would benefit our company.
We currently use the free version of Elastic Search for some of our logs. However, if we were to use it more extensively, we would need to consider the pricing of the paid plans.
Another area of improvement is stability.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for five years now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability a seven out of ten. We faced a few issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
We don't use the support because we use the free version.
What about the implementation team?
We were able to handle the deployment ourselves. We have one administrator and three users for this solution. So, there are four people in total.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I use the free version. We use the free version for some logs, but not extensive use.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. The free version is not very useful.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Great platform to visualize and automate all production, sales and SC data on single page
What do you like best about the product?
The best part of Elastic Enterprise Search has to be their Induatrial IoT which helps the company to gather the data about its machineries and equipment to forecast the failures and optimize production process
What do you dislike about the product?
The least liked thing about Eastic Enterprise Search is the so called intelligent automation. This automation requires very high accuracy data input and then only it can automate the SCM process otherwise the automation would not be useful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Elastic Enterprise Search is helping the companies to gain the very important insights related to production, supply chain management and sales which inturn helps achieve business excellence.
Troubleshooting Page for Tech and Non Tech level explanation
What do you like best about the product?
So I have used this tool recently very good for getting data and all other things related to analysis and Business Analyst work. I used for Kibana dashboard works like charm.
What do you dislike about the product?
Proper working documentation so basically I need to go through YouTube videos to actually correctly set it up and updation happens many time and it's hard to know whether that affected the setup steps. Plus I need to later update my sister how to setup it and she is non tech background so, have documentation for keeping those people in mind will be very helpful and plus good Troubleshooting page especially new updates happened around setup steps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I think mostly extracting data and using it for creating a wonderful dashboard which will help in further analysis of data. Mostly I used it with Kibana and hence it becomes very powerful there.
Search well
What do you like best about the product?
Helpful in narrowing specifics of search. Finding the right information
What do you dislike about the product?
Complexity for new members. Difficult engine to maneuver
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps with secuirty threats I face when deep diving on the web
Great tool that just works
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about it is indexing; it helps to see the hot and cold storage and adequately index the things. It's easy to find and set up integrations for alerting.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not highly intuitive, so UI tends to get confusing. When it comes down to the onboarding, it may take a while for a new person to get used to how to navigate the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Searching through the details and events that are being logged in. We also set up an automated detection in place based on specific events and set up additional integrations to have a proper DART plan.
Searching Became Efficient With Elastic Search
What do you like best about the product?
As I have already had the title as Searching made easy with Elastic search. The important part of it is that it stores the data in a file and thus makes the search more efficient and faster. We can search the table columns, we can also search for the specific text present in the document in a very faster way. but it would have become difficult in the case of relational DB's.
What do you dislike about the product?
The thing I do not like is that it takes more time to sync the records. Suppose if I wanted to process say 10k records then it takes more time to sync the docs. Thus it shows some kind of inconsistency between data, but after sometime when we refresh, it shows the correct data.
Shard failures occurs so that become difficult to solve.
Shard failures occurs so that become difficult to solve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Searching made easy with Elastic Search.
We can search for anything like a specific value from the document in an efficient and faster way.
Easy to Index.
Great support of the libraries.
We can search for anything like a specific value from the document in an efficient and faster way.
Easy to Index.
Great support of the libraries.
Fast and efficient search engine
What do you like best about the product?
It offers the tools you need to create a better search experience, it also has a fairly stable performance, the analysis of geographic information is quite complete, it also provides a variety of tools necessary to create a very good search experience, it also offers a great simplicity of implementation, also provides good product documentation, the administration portal is very easy to use, also provides full control over exactly what search results should appear in queries, it is a simple way to integrate into various systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
The experience has been very positive, I do not have any negative comments towards Swiftype, I hope it continues to improve every day even more, as it has done throughout all this time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is a good tool for our content that helps people find the most relevant content easily, the ability to implement search on our site has been amazing, it also gives us a safe search, it also helps us facilitate a fluid search for customers , offers the most modern and powerful search solution, I also use it to perform fast and secure searches, it is a very versatile search solution.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a very good performance search platform, it has been very helpful in many aspects, it offers good tools so that you can implement it in the best way, I recommend that you use Swiftype.
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