Changes when using Elasticsearch and Kibana 6.8.23 (Free Tier) instead of Shinydocs Indexer and Visualizer 6.8.23

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What’s New?

• The UI in the Visualizer is now Kibana’s UI

  

  You will notice some new options in the left-side navigation pane. The same pages exist from previous versions, and also include Elasticsearch's other tools, however, they are not officially supported by Shinydocs at this time, including:

  • Canvas

  • Maps

  • Machine Learning

  • Infrastructure

  • APM

  • Uptime

  • User Accounts

• Monitoring is now included in Kibana

  • Monitoring needs to be enabled

    • Click on the “Monitoring” tab on the left-side navigation pane to enable

  • By default, it will keep monitoring data for 2 weeks (14 days)

  • The monitoring tool is very useful for getting metrics on the performance of the cluster. For more information please see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.8/elasticsearch-metrics.html

Are there any breaking changes?

No! Everything you were used to doing in Kibana and Elasticsearch is the same as it was in previous versions. If you would like to get into the finer details, check out Elasticsearch’s release notes here:

Elasticsearch: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/es-release-notes.html

Kibana: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.8/release-notes.html

Are there any other changes I should know about?

Yes! When installing 6.8.23, there are some additional configurations required when setting up the Indexer/Elasticsearch.

You will still need to configure the Java heap settings in the jvm.options file as normal

The following configurations are located in the elasticsearch.yml file located in ..\indexer\config

1. Line 17 - cluster.name

   1. Remove the comment character # at the beginning of the line

   2. Replace my-application with a name for your cluster (e.g. acme-analytics)

      1. This name will need to be the exact same on every node in the cluster

2. Line 23 - node.name

   1. Remove the comment character # at the beginning of the line

   2. Replace node-1 with a unique name for this machine. This will be the name reported on the Monitoring page of Kibana. Using the server's name is a good choice!

3. Line 43 - bootstrap.memory_lock

   1. Remove the comment character # at the beginning of the line

   2. Keep the value true

4. Line 55 - network.host

   1. Remove the comment character # at the beginning of the line

   2. Generally, the easiest value to set network.host to is 0.0.0.0 meaning that it will bind on all network interfaces on the machine. For more details see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/network.host.html#network.host https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/network.host.html#network.host

   3. If this line is not modified, the index and Kiabana will not be accessible outside of the local machine

5. If you are configuring a cluster of servers, please see our guide Setting up clusters for Analytics Engine (Shinydocs Indexer)

6. Save the file and restart the Shinydocs Indexer service for your changes to take effect

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