Guide to Using Elasticsearch

This introduction covers:

What is Elasticsearch?

Which Nuix Workstation versions are supported by Elasticsearch versions?

Who is the audience for this guide?

What audience is this guide intended for?

What license do I require?

What is Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine based on Apache Lucene. Nuix Workstation uses Elasticsearch for log analytics, full-text search, and operational intelligence use cases.

Elasticsearch enables Nuix Workstation users to store, search, and analyze large volumes of data, which can be controlled in a distributed environment managed by multiple nodes to provide scalability and high availability.

A Nuix Workstation case backed up by Elasticsearch can accommodate searching while indexing is in progress, thus providing near real-time search capability. It supports multiple users with an index-per-case approach. An Elastic case in Nuix Workstation is a container for an indexed collection of evidence.

Which Nuix Workstation versions are supported by Elasticsearch versions?

See Software requirements in Install Elasticsearch for these details. Also see Prerequisites in the same section.

What audience is this guide intended for?

This guide is intended for those who are already familiar with Elasticsearch, the workflows, and the tasks they might perform. This includes:

Litigation support specialists who use Nuix Workstation to process, search, and export client data in workflows that favor speed, scale, and the ability to work with large datasets.

Corporate and law enforcement investigators who use Nuix Workstation to explore and analyze their corporate data as part of internal investigations or as precursors to litigation.

Attorneys who use Nuix Workstation to quickly and easily assess the facts and merits of legal cases.

Cybersecurity experts who want to protect their systems.

What license do I require?

Nuix Workstation requires any one of the following licenses to run Elasticsearch cases:

Nuix Investigation and Response Viewer

Nuix eDiscovery Production

Nuix eDiscovery Reviewer

Nuix eDiscovery Fast Reviewer

Nuix eDiscovery ARX

Nuix Law Enforcement Plus ARX

Nuix Investigation and Response ARX