For several years CERN has been offering a centralised service for Elasticsearch, a popular distributed system for search and analytics of user provided data. The service offered by CERN IT is better described as a service of services, delivering centrally managed and maintained Elasticsearch instances to CERN users who have a justified need for it. This dynamic infrastructure currently consists of about 30 distinct and independent Elasticsearch installations, in the following referred to as Elasticsearch clusters, some of which are shared between different user communities.
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