This is a great, really comprehensive walk-through! For folks that want to work with a bit more than books, there are a bunch of examples on Elastic's Github p

This is a great, really comprehensive walk-through! For folks that want to work with a bit more than books, there are a bunch of examples on Elastic's Github profile - I've found this useful for testing queries that pull back visualizations, etc: https://github.com/elastic/examples/ https://github.com/elastic/examples/ If you want to test query results without building a whole front-end / API, you can also use Sense / Kibana to query directly via the query language or, enable CORS and use something like POSTman. If you don't want to use node I'd also recommend taking a look at their python client.