Elastic Stack

• Apache Lucene: This was a opensource software launched by Apache Foundataion. The purpose of this project is to search text faster.
• Elastic Search: Built on Top of Lucene with many other usecases to serve. Refer Here
• Interesting features of elastic search
  • Designed to Scale Horizontally
  • Fault tolerant by design
  • Restful API’s
    
• Architecture
  
• Elastic Cloud offers Elastic Search as a Service.

Lab Setup

• We will create a sample applications and servers which we will be monitoring
• For this we need a cloud account (AWS/Azure)
• Note: System Setup: Refer Here

Terms

• Vertical Scaling: Increasing the size of resources
• Horizontal Scaling: Increasing the number of servers