Moodle Plugins directory: Elastic: Comments

Thursday, 5 December 2024, 12:27 AM - Brian Merritt

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:27:57 GMT

by Brian Merritt.

Does this plugin work with Azure ElasticSearch? We would want to setup Tika plus ElasticSearch.

Monday, 2 March 2020, 12:35 AM - Guido Hornig

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 16:35:25 GMT

by Guido Hornig.

The install hints where enough to install it on moodle 3.8.1

Thanks
Guido from lern.link

Tuesday, 29 January 2019, 10:19 PM - Jonathan Flores

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:19:40 GMT

by Jonathan Flores.

Hello, I'm trying to install the add-on, I've already followed all the installation steps and I get the following error "Elasticsearch endpoint unreachable" I do not know if I'm missing something to configure, I use moodle 3.2 and elasticsearch 6.5.1

Thanks
Jonathan

Sunday, 20 August 2017, 2:18 PM - Matt Porritt

Sun, 20 Aug 2017 06:18:19 GMT

by Matt Porritt.

Hi Steve,
Searching across multiple indices with Elasticsearch is straight forward, in that Elasticsearch supports it. Integrating with Moodle would be harder. The main hurdle would be access control and display of non Moodle results in Moodle.
If you want to talk about this more, please feel free to reach out to me directly.

Matt P

Saturday, 19 August 2017, 5:12 AM - Steve Pollock

Fri, 18 Aug 2017 21:12:47 GMT

by Steve Pollock.

Perfect Matt, this has been working very well, thank-you!!

Now, I have a question about extending this a bit. I am able to push a lot of other data into ES with logstash and others, but of course the data is placed in different indices: logstash*, twitter, email etc.. Would it be possible to have the site index into "moodle" as is today, but instead search on "_all" indices?

I don't know if that's really difficult or an easy change. It would great if we could provide a central search right out moodle.

Thanks
-Steve

Friday, 4 August 2017, 9:15 AM - Matt Porritt

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 01:15:57 GMT

by Matt Porritt.

Hi Steve,
Core global search has a core scheduled task that runs to keep the index up to date. So you shouldn't need to set anything else up. You can check the status of the scheduled tasks here: youmoodlesitedomain/admin/tool/task/scheduledtasks.php Also you can get more detailed information about the index here: yourmoodlesitedomain/admin/searchareas.php

Hope this helps

Friday, 4 August 2017, 8:45 AM - Steve Pollock

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 00:45:02 GMT

by Steve Pollock.

I have this working with the latest (AWS) ES 5.3 as of today on Moodle 3.2.2 -- just FYI. Thank-you for sharing the work!

I noticed I had to run the indexer by hand in the steps above, just want to verify that it keep everything indexed going forward or do I need to build a job to run the indexer every so often?

thanks again,
-Steve

Wednesday, 26 July 2017, 3:31 AM - Jeff White

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 19:31:23 GMT

by Jeff White.

Tested this tool out and it is much easier to install that solr. The service seemed to index a very large moodle instance faster than solr did.

Monday, 22 May 2017, 6:06 AM - Matt Porritt

Sun, 21 May 2017 22:06:00 GMT

by Matt Porritt.

@Grzegorz Ziółek
In terms of user experience and searching for content In Moodle both plugins should behave exactly the same. There is an edge case where the Elasticsearch plugin has better behaviour with paging when there are many pages of search results.

The main reason Catalyst IT made this plugin is that Elasticsearch better suits our infrastructure setup. For example on our Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosting infrastructure we can take advantage of the Elasticsearch managed service AWS provides. This takes away a lot of the burden of managing a search engine cluster. Personally I find Elasticsearch easier to setup and manage than Solr. Whether this benefits you will depend on your setup.

If you have any other questions please let me know.

Friday, 19 May 2017, 6:12 PM - Grzegorz Ziółek

Fri, 19 May 2017 10:12:00 GMT

by Grzegorz Ziółek.

What are the benefits(or pitfalls) over using solr plugin?

Monday, 13 February 2017, 12:00 PM - Plugins bot

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 04:00:10 GMT

by Plugins bot.

Approval issue created: CONTRIB-6748