I hope the lectures so far gave you a good overview of Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, and that you are excited to get started! Before we get to it, I just want to share a few words about the course Q&A.
What kind of questions can I ask within the Q&A?
The Q&A is the place where you can ask questions that are related to the course content. Questions related to how you should write a query for your particular use case at work, should probably be asked on Stackoverflow instead.
All questions should be asked within the Q&A
Please do not send your questions as private messages, as it is difficult for me to manage questions within my inbox. Please always use the course Q&A for questions related to the course content. For other questions, feel free to send me a message.
Search before asking
A lot of questions are very common, and the answer is only a Google search away. For example, instead of asking "How doI use the match query?", a Google search for "elasticsearch match query" would bring up the documentation, which probably answers the question. If you cannot find an answer to your question online, by all means ask your questions here - but please try first.
Please make your questions as specific as possible
I get a lot of questions with little to no context. If your question is related to a specific lecture, please open up the lecture in the video player and ask your question in the Q&A section below. This ensures that your question is linked to the lecture, giving me some useful context. Please also provide as much detail as possible when asking your question so I don't have to ask follow-up questions before being able to provide an answer.
Why haven't my question been answered?
Chances are that I just haven't gotten to it yet. I am a quite busy person, so please be patient. I have a track record of personally answering 95%+ of all questions, so I will probably get to yours as well. Although I do try to answer all questions, I cannot guarantee that your question will be answered, since the volume of questions is generally high, and answering questions is quite time consuming.Sending me a private message will not get your question answered faster, so please don't.
"Please write a query that does X, Y, and Z"
The Q&A is intended for course related questions, not for consultant work. While I sometimes provide example queries, I do not generally write queries for people.