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Blog Post: Big Shards Cause Big Problems

Learn the technical details around how to identify a potential shard performance issue, and how to create a solid sharding strategy.

Dec 18, 2024

Bonsai now supports Elasticsearch 7.2

Bonsai now supports Elasticsearch 7.2

After various tests by our team, Elasticsearch 7.2 is now available on Bonsai.

Jul 15, 2019

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Deploy Bonsai in your own AWS account with Bonsai Vaults

Deploy Bonsai in your own AWS account with Bonsai Vaults

Countless blog posts and Hacker News threads have asked a simple question: Heroku or AWS?

Apr 29, 2019

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Increase Website Profits Using Elasticsearch Boost

Increase Website Profits Using Elasticsearch Boost

Black Friday is coming up soon, and a lot of eCommerce companies are doing everything they can to prepare.

Nov 1, 2018

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How We Built & Designed Operational Metrics

How We Built & Designed Operational Metrics

The newest feature to join the dashboard family is the one we’ve been most excited about: announcing Bonsai’s Elasticsearch operations metrics, a…

Jan 2, 2018

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Rails 5 with Bonsai

Rails 5 with Bonsai

Getting started with Bonsai Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails is incredibly quick and simple to do.

Oct 17, 2016

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Rails 5 with Bonsai

Rails 5 with Bonsai

Getting started with Bonsai Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails is incredibly quick and simple to do.

Apr 15, 2016

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Introducing: Live Streaming Logs

Introducing: Live Streaming Logs

You can find the logs for your cluster under the Logs tab in your cluster dashboard.

Apr 4, 2016

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Logstash and Bonsai and bots, oh my!

Logstash and Bonsai and bots, oh my!

Sometimes we’re asked if we support Logstash.

Feb 13, 2016

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The Ideal Elasticsearch Index

The Ideal Elasticsearch Index

At the core of Elasticsearch’s popularity is the ease and simplicity of setting up a cluster.

Jan 11, 2016

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Can I have multiple indices on a shard?

Can I have multiple indices on a shard?

We sometimes hear from users concerned about their shard counts.

Nov 19, 2015

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Efficient sorting of geo distances in Elasticsearch

Efficient sorting of geo distances in Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is much more than just a search engine: it’s also a powerful analytics tool.

Apr 14, 2015

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Elasticsearch and the IllegalArgumentException (docID must be >= 0)

Elasticsearch and the IllegalArgumentException (docID must be >= 0)

We sometimes get support tickets from users asking about this error message.

Apr 6, 2015

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