Managing Cluster Monitoring: A Guide to Disabling Monitoring in Elastic Cloud for Elasticsearch
In Elastic Cloud, monitoring your deployments is crucial for maintaining optimal performance and identifying potential issues. However, there may be situations where you need to disable monitoring [...]
Unleashing the Power of AI: How Elasticsearch’s Retrieval Augmented Generation is Revolutionizing Search
In the world of search engines, the goal is always to provide users with the most relevant and helpful results. Traditional search engines, rely on keyword matching [...]
Enhancing Security with File Integrity Monitoring in Elasticsearch
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is a security measure that involves monitoring and validating the integrity of files on a system to detect and respond to unauthorized changes. [...]
Configuring SSO in Elastic Stack 8.x using Google Workspace SAML Idp
Kibana has the ability to provide single sign-on (SSO) via SAML based Idp like Google Workspace (formally G Suite). For this post we used Elastic Cloud deployment [...]
How to read full xml file with Filebeat?
In the realm of data manipulation and analysis, XML (eXtensible Markup Language) files continue to serve as a foundational tool for organizing information in a structured manner. [...]
Creative, Interesting & Meaningful Data Visualization with Kibana Canvas
Data visualization has become an essential aspect of understanding and analyzing data, and Kibana by Elastic has emerged as a powerful tool in this realm. Among its [...]
How to add Country flags in Kibana through Data Views
Introduction: Kibana, the powerful data visualization tool, provides a wide range of functionalities to analyze and interpret data. One of its key features is the ability to [...]
Sangfor Firewall (NGFW) Logs, Decoders & Rules for Wazuh
Wazuh Wazuh is an open-source security solution designed to help organizations detect and respond to security threats. It provides real-time threat detection, analysis, and response capabilities, allowing [...]
Wazuh Single Sign-on (SSO) with Google Workspace on Docker
Wazuh is becoming preferred SIEM solution of many organisations and teams. Its loaded with feature to empower security teams to have an in depth picture of their [...]
Call for speakers for Elastic Community Meetup, Karachi
We are organizing an on site meetup for the Elasticsearch community in Karachi, Pakistan. We are inviting speakers for the session to share their experience with Elastic [...]
Wazuh-Manager on Windows – A step-by-step guide
Welcome to this guide on deploying Wazuh-Manager on Windows using Docker. Docker is a great platform for containerization of applications. In this guide I will walk you [...]
Elk Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana Tutorial
Getting millions of downloads in 2020, ELK is a thriving log management platform built to ease the business complexities. It enables businesses to aggregate logs, analyze, visualize, [...]
Long Awaited Sphinx 3.0 is here and its awesome
Finally long awaited Sphinx 3.0 is here. Its a major major rewrite of Sphinx and comes with tons of new features. Here is quick summary of new [...]
How to get minimum and maximum price in Solr?
Showing a price range selector for visitor to narrow down search is a common use case for eCommerce sites. Usually developers try to use facets for this [...]
Solr 6.x – SolrException Unable to create core [xxx] Caused by: Input length = 1
In Solr 6.x if you are getting exceptions like java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1 and unable to load/reload the core, then most likely you are having issues [...]
Implementing Lazyload on AdButler Ad Slots
We were working on client's site to optimize its front end performance. Home page had 7 ads placed via AdButler. As a general practice we don't recommend [...]
MySql query to find category path (breadcrumb) for osCommerce
In our recent project we implemented Sphinx Search for an osCommerce based site. We included the full path (breadcrumb) of category into search. I thought the breadcrumb [...]
Fixing java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.getSchema()
If you are banging your head because of this exception in Solr 4.6 you should do following things.Be sure that solrconfig.xml of your core has <luceneMatchVersion>4.6</luceneMatchVersion> tag.Be [...]
Secure Solr admin interface on Tomcat
Sorl admin interface is powerful tool to manage cores, debugging and lot of other stuff. At same time this can be very dangerous tool, because this page [...]
Sphinx Search Delta Index implementation
Delta indexing is way of designing indexes so only the updated data is read from db and indexed by Sphinx. Imagine a blog with 100 million posts. [...]
Installing Solr on Windows with Wamp
Solr is a great tool for full-text searching and more, from Apache Software Foundation. Its based on Apache Lucene search library and extends it. In this post [...]
Advanced sorting using Sphinx Search Expressions
Sphinx Search allows use of custom expressions, where we can have internal attributes, conditions, arithmetic operators, and functions to calculate custom values for each document/record. It then allows [...]
Magento Performance: Remove apache modules
There are many modules enabled by default in apache config which are not required to run a typical magento installation. Disabling these modules can help optimize performance [...]
Searching Domain Names with Sphinx
Recently we came across a project where we had to make a domains database searchable with high accuracy. Domain names are special because they don’t have any [...]
How to index data in Sphinx from files and database both?
I don’t know how often someone have to come across situation where one need to index data from database and files both in one index. One of [...]
What is Sphinx Search?
Sphinx search server is full-text search engine which is free, fast and scalable. It is designed for performance, relevance and scalability, which is unmatched by any conventional [...]