Training Agenda

Elasticsearch
& Kibana

Elasticsearch is the distributed search and analytics engine that powers full-text search, log analysis, and real-time metrics at scale. Kibana is the visualization layer — dashboards, discover, and Lens for building business intelligence on top of Elasticsearch data. Together they form the foundation of the ELK stack. This training covers Elasticsearch from index design through query DSL, aggregations, and Kibana dashboard building.

2 days On-site, remote, or hybrid Up to 20 participants German or English
What We Cover
Search, analytics, and visualization at scale
Day 1

Elasticsearch: Indexing & Querying

  • Elasticsearch architecture: clusters, nodes, shards, replicas
  • Document model: indices, mappings, field types
  • Index mapping: explicit vs dynamic mapping, multi-fields, nested vs object
  • Analyzers: standard, language, custom analyzers — how text is indexed
  • Query DSL: match, term, range, bool, nested, function_score
  • Full-text search: relevance scoring, boosting, highlights
  • Aggregations: terms, date histogram, range, nested, pipeline aggregations
  • Index lifecycle management (ILM): hot-warm-cold-delete phases
  • Aliases: zero-downtime reindex, rolling alias pattern
  • Performance: shard sizing, segment merging, bulk indexing best practices
Day 2

Advanced Queries, Kibana & Production

  • Geo queries: geo_point, geo_shape, distance queries
  • Percolator: storing queries and matching them against documents
  • Cross-cluster search
  • Kibana Discover: KQL syntax, field filtering, saved searches
  • Kibana Dashboards: Lens visualizations, TSVB, Maps
  • Kibana Alerting: threshold rules, index threshold, ES|QL alerts
  • ES|QL: the new Elasticsearch query language — syntax and use cases
  • Security: role-based access control, index-level security, field masking
  • Snapshot and restore: repository configuration, automated snapshots
  • Elasticsearch with Spring Boot: Spring Data Elasticsearch, ElasticsearchClient
  • Sizing guide: heap configuration, disk allocation awareness
Learning Outcomes
What your team walks away with

Teams who can design Elasticsearch indices, write production-quality queries and aggregations, and build Kibana dashboards that surface meaningful insights from their data.

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Available standalone or as part of the full ELK Stack training including Logstash and Beats.

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