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Blog Post: Query Sampling for Relevancy Testing

When testing for relevancy, is it best to test against the most frequently asked queries, or to choose a subset of queries that may not include those that are most frequently asked?

Jan 28, 2025

Designing app search != designing a database

Designing app search != designing a database

Elasticsearch is a popular tool for application search.

Jul 25, 2019

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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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