Hello Gianni, I cannot look into the heads of the Elasticsearch developers and company strategists, but it is clear to me that if they want to position a new "product" in an area that is already rather well covered by other (commercial and OpenSource) products, they should find their own, distinct positioning in the market. Apparently, log ingestion, retrieval and analytics is a field in which there are strong Elasticsearch customers and nice success stories, but where many companies are struggling today to find solutions at reasonable cost. So, the logical consequence for Elasticsearch is to promote their (rather generic) tools as a solution (with Logstash and Kibana) that provides a quick start for many users with challenges in exactly this field. That's how you gain market share :-)
Practically, you could do exactly the same with SolrCloud. However, your mileage will vary compared to "ELK". So, I would interpret this "focus" on log analytics as simply a clever move to become visible, to quickly create a significant community of users, and to leverage the paid-for products Elasticsearch as a company is offering or planning to offer. As for your start-up, does it really matter whether Elasticsearch will continue to focus on log analytics or not? Don't you think that if your company will build up extensive experience with Elasticsearch in the domain of large log analytics projects, you could later translate that into other application domains as well - just as Elasticsearch will explore other fields? Looking at the featured case studies on their web site, there are clearly more applications that could be transformed into nice patterns analogous to the "log analytics" application. Best regards, --Jürgen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/976f5c59-cc93-4876-980a-1b453319eff0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
