Introduction into Elastic App Search

Introduction into Elastic App Search Alexander Reelsen Community Advocate alex@elastic.co | @spinscale

What is App Search?

App Search? Synonym management Relevance tuning Curated Results Facets Easy UI Building API driven indexing

App Search? Language Optimization Query suggestions Result suggestions API Logs Analytics: Queries, clicks, counts

Deployment Run locally Elastic Cloud

Synonym Management

Relevance Tuning Field weight Boost, also based on field values (think recency, proximity, rating boosts)

Relevance Tuning

App Search Clients JavaScript/Node PHP Python Ruby Search UI

Indexing data Requires an Engine in App Search No schema definition required, everything is text by default Arbitrary JSON can be sent Field id is unique identifier

Indexing data curl -X POST ‘https://$HOST/api/as/v1/engines/$ENGINE_NAME/documents’ \ -H ‘Content-Type: application/json’ \ -H ‘Authorization: Bearer [PRIVATE_API_KEY]’ \ -d ‘[ { “id”: “first_document”, “description”: “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor…”, “title”: “My first title”, “created_at”: “2020-10-10T12:34:56Z”, “size” : 25 }, { “id”: “second_document”, “description”: “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor…”, “title”: “My second title”, “created_at”: “2020-10-10T00:00:12Z”, “size” : 67 } ]’

Knowledge Base Sample App Two components: web frontend, data importer Two engines: elastic-co-discuss , elastic-co-docs

Data Importer Elastic Cloud Web Frontend Import docs/discuss Query Suggestions/Results Return Suggestions/Results

Clone Repository git clone https://github.com/elastic/app-search-kb-demo cd app-search-kb-demo # this will take a bit… docker build —target frontend -t app-search-kb-demo/frontend . docker build —target dataimport -t app-search-kb-demo/dataimport .

Configure credentials export AS_BASE_URL=”https://fc12fb2325dd4945a0095d60577bfa00.app-search.us-east-1.aws.found.io” export AS_PRIVATE_API_KEY=”private-2mfghuirex81t5346879aw3n” export AS_SEARCH_API_KEY=”search-eirws4ynagfdhgeep63ywscd”

Import Data into Elastic Cloud export AS_BASE_URL=”https://fc12fb2325dd4945a0095d60577bfa00.app-search.us-east-1.aws.found.io” export AS_PRIVATE_API_KEY=”private-2mfghuirex81t5346879aw3n” export AS_SEARCH_API_KEY=”search-eirws4ynagfdhgeep63ywscd” # import data into Elastic Cloud, might take a few minutes docker run —rm —env AS_BASE_URL=$AS_BASE_URL \ —env AS_PRIVATE_API_KEY=$AS_PRIVATE_API_KEY app-search-kb-demo/dataimport

Start Frontend export AS_BASE_URL=”https://fc12fb2325dd4945a0095d60577bfa00.app-search.us-east-1.aws.found.io” export AS_PRIVATE_API_KEY=”private-2mfghuirex81t5346879aw3n” export AS_SEARCH_API_KEY=”search-eirws4ynagfdhgeep63ywscd” # import data into Elastic Cloud, might take a few minutes docker run —rm —env AS_BASE_URL=$AS_BASE_URL \ —env AS_PRIVATE_API_KEY=$AS_PRIVATE_API_KEY app-search-kb-demo/dataimport # start the frontend docker run —rm -p 5000:5000 —env AS_BASE_URL=$AS_BASE_URL \ —env AS_SEARCH_API_KEY=$AS_SEARCH_API_KEY app-search-kb-demo/frontend

Demo

Demo Tasks Check out frontend Relevancy Synonyms Test UI builder

Summary Frontend: Presentation Middleware: Search logic Backend: Document actions

Next steps

App Search Docs

Discuss Forum

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Introduction into Elastic App Search Alexander Reelsen Community Advocate alex@elastic.co | @spinscale