Introduction into the Elasticsearch Ingest Node

This is a short introduction into the Elasticsearch Ingest Node. The corresponding blog post is at https://www.elastic.co/blog/writing-your-own-ingest-processor-for-elasticsearch

1. 1 Alexander Reelsen @spinscale Introduction into Elasticsearch Ingest Node
2. 2 What? • Elasticsearch did not have any possibility to enrich JSON before indexing • Logstash usually takes over the part of document enrichment • Getting apache logs required a full ELK setup • Getting data from a beat to Elasticsearch required logstash in between • What if we had a little bit of enrichment power in Elasticsearch?
3. 3 Will logstash be replaced? No
4. 4 Definitions • Pipeline • Guide to document enrichment • Stored inside ClusterState • Index operations can have a pipeline configured • A pipeline consists of a series of processors • Processor • A single step to change a document • Configurable as part of a pipeline
5. 5 APIs • PUT _ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id • GET _ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id • DELETE _ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id • POST _ingest/pipeline/_simulate
6. 6 Processors • Append, Convert, Date, Date Index Name, Fail • Foreach, Grok, Gsub, Join, JSON, KV, Lowercase • Remove, Rename, Script, Set, Split, Sort, Trim, Uppercase, Dot Expander • Plugins: useragent, geoip, attachment
7. 7 Ingestion inside of a cluster C PUT foo/bar/1 P R R
8. 8 Ingestion inside of a cluster C PUT foo/bar/1?pipeline_id=my-pipeline P R R
9. 9 dedicated ingest nodes C PUT foo/bar/1?pipeline_id=my-pipeline P R R node.ingest: true node.ingest: false node.ingest: false node.ingest: false node.ingest: false node.ingest: true
10. 10 Demo: Using pipelines
11. 11 Writing your own processor
12. 12 Writing your own processor • Processors can be written as own plugins • Use any JVM language • Processors are fully unit testable! • Beware of the security manager!
13. 13 Demo: Writing your own processor
14. 14 Further reading
15. 15 https://speakerdeck.com/elastic/ingest-node-enriching-documents-within-elasticsearch https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/ingest.html https://www.elastic.co/blog/ingest-node-a-clients-perspective https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/ingest-apis.html https://www.elastic.co/blog/new-way-to-ingest-part-1 https://www.elastic.co/blog/ingesting-and-exploring-scientific-papers-using-elastic-cloud https://www.elastic.co/blog/writing-your-own-ingest-processor-for-elasticsearch https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-opennlp https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-langdetect https://github.com/spinscale/cookiecutter-elasticsearch-ingest-processor Further reading
16. 16 Questions?