Great Service! Easy to Set Up and Use!!
Started with AWS's Elastic offering, but found it was behind and missing functionality. Eventually, I intend to manage the installation myself. In the meantime, this gets us up and running immediately. It would be nice to be able to provision more storage separately without provisioning more servers or other resources since it becomes cost prohibitive to store and analyze logs for the duration we would like to, ultimately this is the limitation that will make us move in-house eventually. But so far the functionality and ease of use have been just what we needed.
Easy to setup, great to use
We've used self-hosted ElasticSearch for years, but as we're working on migrating our applications to a cloud-hosted solution, we needed to decide how to host some of our services, such as ElasticSearch.
After much investigation, we decided to use the Elastic Cloud service, due to the easy of setup, management, and maintenance. The fact that a Kibana server comes with it and is ready to go as soon as your cluster is built really puts the cherry on top.
Best search engine out there for REST!
What do you like best about the product?
Very good REST API support to search and index documents/ data. The documentation is pretty solid and verbose as well which makes it easy to understand and write queries. Very good support for issues. They even released elastic cloud recently which makes it even better to set up clusters and interact with your data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wish the REST browser plugin was still supported. But it's fine without it as well
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Search of product configs
Great Product!!!
this is really a good tools keep it up
In Addition, If the Logstash hosted in the same cloud it is far amazing
No Doubt the Best Search Platform
ELK Stack is the only Leader currently in the industry to provide Search, Log management and Data Analytics under one roof.
Would love to have Beats included in this offering.
Great product, easy to use
We chose to go with the Elastic Cloud service because the setup was incredibly simple, and we where up and running in minutes. Everything we had done locally was easily transferred up into the cloud service, and in about half an hour we went from a locally running install to a fully functional cloud install.
My only complaint was that I used my email to sign up (I'm an architect) however our support team wanted it transferred into their email when we went live and there is no way to change the primary email after the fact.
That is honestly the only thing I can complain about, other then that it has been remarkably stable, easy to work with, and does exactly what you want it to.
Configuration Flexibility was the determining factor.
Elastic Cloud gave us more flexibility and control than the AWS ElasticSearch and the ability to manage it within our AWS market account. Having x-pack available for security and monitoring and ability to customize the configuration for Slack notifications and alerts.
Great Customizable Experience
What do you like best about the product?
I like how easy Swiftype is to use and the power of being able to rank and customize the results to a query so that I can ensure the user is getting the results that will be more helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish Swiftype would allow me to add URLs it doesn't recognize. For example, I have a few symbolic links or pages with redirects that send the user directly to a system we utilize. It would be extremely helpful if I could include those within the search results.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a very active Communications Director and quite often a search will result in a number of his press releases. Being able to rank an admissions page with steps over a press release is priceless.
Great Service and Support
What do you like best about the product?
We really enjoy the developer API and the ability to customize our integration. API Documentation is very good. Support is very helpful, knowledgeable and fast!
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much, all works well. The only wishlist item would be better analytics, but not bad.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use search for our main ecommerce search. We are utilizing search and autocomplete to drive customers to better search results using Swiftype Search and the experience they have in refining the natural language selection engine.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
As far as the API goes, it has been great for us. We can pretty much implement any tool we want. It's easy and support is great.
A great replacement for Google Site Search
What do you like best about the product?
A simple to use interface with no fuss setup and easy to configure and change without strong technical expertise.
What do you dislike about the product?
Only call out would be that our legal team had some issues with the base Term of Use but we were able to resolve this with some negotiation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a quick and easy way to migrate a legacy Google Site Search from the site and Swiftype allowed us to do this with minimal uplift. The Javascript engine is painless to use and migration was done with just a few days of development for UI tweaking.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely worth considering as a replacement for Google/Nabble style page search.
