17 Feb 2016

Elasticon Keynote

I am in San Francisco today at Pier 48 attending the Elasticon 2016. So far I walked around the vendor area and checked them out. Now I am awaiting the keynote and wonder what to expect considering it is an Opensource project. I am guessing it will be mostly around Elastic’s commercial products.

So far it is very loud …. - way to loud.

1800 Attendees - that’s actually more than I expected.
51000 Community Members
500 Meetups - 138 Groups.
50,000,000 downloads across all products.

Onto use cases:

DARPA USAA Hotel Tonight - uses hosted version Goldman Sachs etc.

The future:

Road Map: What would Luke Skywalker do?

More Analytics Products for Non Developers
Centralising the Deployments

Shay Banon up next:

What happened - last year:
Elasticsearch:
Talking about the Elasticsearch logo Mayhem. ELK stack is now Elastic Stack. New logos for everything.
Columnar Store - since EL 2.0.
Java Security Manager - since EL 2.0 - very challenging to implement.
CLuster State Difs - also since EL 2.0
Profiling API - tough to humanly digest - working on a GUI
Geo Location
Pipeline Aggregation

Kibana:
Black again - actually really difficult to implement.
Heat Maps.
Timezones.

Logstash:
Faster more reliable pipelines
Responsive design (automatic reload of configurations)
plugins, plugins, plugins
Reimplemented modules in Java
Made things faster and faster and faster

Beats:
Welcome.
Filebeats
Winlogbeat
metricsbeat

Release Bonanza:
All products will be on the same version in the future (version 5).

Architecture:

Make it simple to start.
Ingest Node - libraries that do logstash work.

Kibana 4.0:
Custom plugins
Marvel
Timelion

Rashid Khan (Creator of Kibana):
What’s new with 5.0

Better experience building plugins
Makes it easier for the UI team at the Elastic Team
Changes in service level:
Upgrade - just restart Kibana
Less Kibana more Data (20% more space for data)
Fieldstats API in Kibana since 4.0
short and superfast fast overview

Packs: Bundle together a few plugins to a zip file to tell a story (???)
Download a complete solution (implemented in plugins across the stack)

Commercial Extensions:
Shield
security implemented all the way down to Lucene
Secure sessions in Kibana

Watcher etc.
Now they are all bundled in one pack called x-pack
Uri Boness

Demonstrates value of packs (bundles)

x-pack has built-in users
x-pack allows user and roles management from Kibana Web UI
x-pack add monitoring for EL cluster Logstash nodes, client nodes

Demonstrates the logout button (end of demo)

Gephi (Graph)

New feature in x-pack
Graph API (Kibana plugin)

Found Service:
Renaming to Elastic Cloud
Deployed across AWS/GCE/SoftLayer/Azure
Now also a product for on-premise: Elastic Cloud Enterprise Available as private Beta as off today

Install demo: looks like they are using docker
Demo create on-demand Elasticsearch cluster.
Use isolated Docker containers for each new service (EL cluster)

Next up IBM:

Watson……

Til next time,
E.E at 12:53