Opening the code of our X-Pack features
Yeah so has anyone actually tried to get ElasticSearch up and running lately? I just tried and had a terrible time, despite the fact that I was using ElasticSearch + Kibana, and it was dockerized, and it was on Kubernetes (there's more complexity, yes, but all those tools make deployment simpler once you understand them, not harder -- writing a pod resource config to get a thing running means I don't have to run around my system changing settings, I just put all of it in one place). XPack was just another stumbling block while trying to get everything running.<p>The combination of lack of documentation, inconsistent/changed configuration (ENV vs YAML vs values that just don't exist anymore), breaking changes between versions that rendered Kibana completely useless, and the recent (?) removal of plugins that expose web APIs (so I couldn't use something like elastic-head. This is all in Kubernetes btw -- maybe it's just that I wasn't smart enough to get it done, but it's so easy to write functional (if not well-configured) configurations for other databases, I was at a loss for words when nothing I tried worked right.<p>I got so angry trying to set up ElasticSearch that making a F/OSS competitor is now #2 on my list of projects-to-do-next. I'm sure the thought is naive but I need to find out for myself that there's no easier way.<p>Imagine if the team behind Prometheus had focused on search instead of metrics? That's the kind of tool I want to use. A tool as focused, easy to start, clearly documented, and straightforward as prometheus.