The Elasticsearch Handbook

Elasticsearch is powerful but has more gotchas than a 90s sitcom. This handbook shows you how to actually make it work without the pain.
Learn Elasticsearch

What you'll get:

Each chapter contains:
  • 20+ real-world problems with working solutions
  • Query patterns that don't break under load
  • How to debug slow queries before they kill performance
  • Deeply nested aggregations but maintainable aggregations that actually make sense
  • Video explanations for complex topics

What's Inside:

10 UNITS / 30 LESSONS

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Reviews

What people actually say

    Wow, this looks great. Thanks for creating it. I bought a copy. Glancing through it, I love the embedded videos, opinionated perspective, and delivery medium. It's now part of my reference material.
    - Solutions Architect
    Congrats Jozef! You've pulled off a fantastic piece of work! I'm sure that will help a tremendous amount of people learning Elasticsearch!
    - Elasticsearch Consultant
    I like the appropriate eloquence coupled with details explained in just the right places. And perfect length to read. This is a nice practical handbook for anyone to learn how to use Elasticsearch effectively.
    - Senior Developer

Is this for you?

Self-starters

Self-starters

You've heard about Elasticsearch's popularity and tried some tutorials, but you're still hitting walls with real-world queries and performance issues. This bridges that gap.
Practitioners

Practitioners

You've got working knowledge of the ELK Stack and can write basic bool queries, but want to master complex aggregations and production optimization techniques.
Team Leaders

Team Leaders

Elasticsearch is part of your tech stack and you need your team to implement it efficiently without falling into performance traps or query anti-patterns.

Don't buy this if:

  • You don't understand basic terms like index, mapping, and Query DSL (learn the basics first).
  • You're mainly interested in infrastructure/DevOps rather than queries and aggregations.
  • You expect this to solve your specific cluster architecture problems (it won't).