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Articles by Alex Marquardt
Principal Consulting Architect, Elastic
Alex is a principal consultant on the services EMEA team. He holds a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Toronto, a B.Sc. from the University of Manitoba, and an MBA from the IESE Business School in Barcelona. Check out his personal blog at www.AlexMarquardt.com.
Calculating ingest lag and storing ingest time in Elasticsearch to improve observability
Learn how to use an ingest node to add an ingest timestamp to documents and to calculate ingest lag. This data can then be used to detect unexpected slowdowns in the ingest process or to detect incorrectly set timestamps on monitored systems.
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