Elasticsearch and Kibana : installation and basic usage on Ubuntu 16.04

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Akshay Pai
Mar 2, 2017

In this tutorial, we will be going through the installation steps for Elasticsearch followed by the installation of Kibana and then we will use Kibana to store and retrieve data. Elasticsearch is a production ready search engine written in java and is extremely powerful. It can be used as a standalone search engine for the web or as a search engine for e-commerce web applications.

AP

Akshay Pai

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