Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook is a comprehensive guide that teaches you how to leverage the full power of Elasticsearch for high-performance search and analytics. Through step-by-step recipes, you'll explore deployment, query building, plugin integration, and advanced analytics, ensuring you can manage and scale Elasticsearch like a pro. What this Book will help me do Understand and deploy complex Elasticsearch cluster topologies for optimal performance. Create tailored mappings to gain finer control over data indexing and retrieval. Design and execute advanced queries and analytics using Elasticsearch capabilities. Integrate Elasticsearch with popular programming languages and big data platforms. Monitor and improve Elasticsearch cluster health using the best practices and tools. Author(s) Alberto Paro is a seasoned software engineer and data scientist with extensive experience in distributed systems and search technologies. Having worked on numerous search-related projects, he brings practical, real-world insights to his writing. Alberto is passionate about teaching and simplifying complex concepts, making this book both approachable and expertly detailed. Who is it for? This book is ideal for developers or data engineers seeking to utilize Elasticsearch for advanced search and analytics tasks. If you have some prior knowledge of JSON and programming concepts, particularly Java, you will benefit most from this material. Whether you're looking to integrate Elasticsearch into your systems or to optimize its usage, this book caters to your needs.