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Elastic and Confluent partner to deliver an enhanced Kafka + Elasticsearch experience

Today, we are pleased to announce a partnership with Confluent to jointly develop and deliver an enhanced product experience to the Kafka-Elasticsearch community. Kafka is — and has been since the very early days — an important component of the Elastic ecosystem.

How to build a facial recognition system using Elasticsearch and Python

Have you ever tried to search for objects in images? Elasticsearch can help you store, analyze, and search for objects in images or videos. In this quick tutorial, we’ll show you how to build a system for facial recognition with Python. Learn more about how to detect and encode facial information — and find matches in search.

Time Series Meetup: Monitoring Your ISP Using InfluxDB Cloud and Raspberry Pi

Virtual Time Series Meetups are events for everyone who is passionate or curious about time series data and how it can be used. In the April 2021 edition, Mirko D. Comparetti shares how he use InfluxDB to monitoring his internet service provider.

Splunk Machine Learning Environments (SMLE) Labs Beta Demo

Check out a demo of SMLE Labs (beta). SMLE is a purpose-built environment, bringing the power of data science and machine learning to production workloads for our Splunk customers. We support a seamless end-to-end ML journey with development, deployment, monitoring, and management — eliminating disjointed solutions with a new, streamlined experience optimized for productivity.

How to troubleshoot the Elastic App Search web crawler

In case you hadn’t heard, we recently released a brand new web crawler for Elastic App Search. The web crawler provides a simple way to ingest publicly available web content and make that content instantly searchable on your website. Configuring the web crawler to start ingesting data from your website is super easy — it’s just a matter of a few clicks. This sounds great, but what if after crawling there are no pages being indexed or you feel some pages are missing?

The Data-Driven IT Operations Organization

Data analytics has always been the foundation to drive actions for IT operations--supporting capacity planning, resource optimization, workload rebalancing, cost projections, and security predictions. But now, there are new demands on IT operations to deliver inclusive data intelligence for managers across IT and the business.

Getting Started with Elastic Maps Server (Beta)

Elastic Maps Server gives you the ability to use Elastic Maps without needing to have a connection to Elastic Maps Service for the underlying basemaps and vector maps. This is ideal for air-gapped or low-connectivity environments that require locally managed assets. In this video, we walk through how to get started with Elastic Maps Server for your own self-managed Elastic Stack deployment.

How to Take Data Stored in InfluxDB Cloud 2 and Use It in a "Switch" Node within Node-Red

This video shows you how to take data that is stored in InfluxDB Cloud 2 and use it in a "Switch" node within Node-Red. In our example, we read the average house temperature and decide whether or not the heating should be switched on.

Time-based scaling of Enterprise Search on Elastic Cloud

Does your Elastic Enterprise Search Cloud deployment follow a predictable usage pattern? You can automatically scale up and down your deployment on a schedule to achieve optimal performance and reduce operating costs. In this article we show you how to use the Elastic Cloud API to change how many Enterprise Search nodes you’re running. We call these APIs from a cron job to achieve hands-free, time-triggered autoscaling.