# Improving User Intelligence with the ELK Stack (search analytics dashboard) **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 7, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improving-user-intelligence-with-the-elk-stack-search-analytics-dashboard/28787 "2015-09-07T15:44:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rmarji](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rmarji/32/30138_2.png) [@rmarji](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rmarji)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improving-user-intelligence-with-the-elk-stack-search-analytics-dashboard/28787/1 "2015-09-07T15:44:23Z")
how can I achieve what is described in here for my elasticsearch cluster? Improving User Intelligence with the ELK Stack at SCA > **[Improving User Intelligence with the ELK Stack at SCA](https://www.elastic.co/blog/improving-user-intelligence-with-the-elk-stack-at-sca)** > > Understanding how your users interact with your search solution is key in knowing how to improve it. One way of going about this is to have your search solution record statistics o... is there any predefined mappings and config files I can use? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improving-user-intelligence-with-the-elk-stack-search-analytics-dashboard/28787/2 "2015-09-07T22:23:28Z")
You need to build this yourself for the time being. But it looks like a combination of something like Topbeat/collectd and Logstash. ---
**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improving-user-intelligence-with-the-elk-stack-search-analytics-dashboard/28787/3 "2015-09-08T20:17:41Z")
Interesting. Alternatively, if you don't feel like building that yourself, Sematext happens to have all of that available (sorry for the promo, but this is handy for those who don't want to build all this stuff on their own) : - Search Analytics - [http://sematext.com/search-analytics](http://sematext.com/search-analytics) - to understand how people are using search on your site - Performance Monitoring - [http://sematext.com/spm](http://sematext.com/spm) - for various performance metrics, alerting, etc. - Log Management - [http://sematext.com/logsene](http://sematext.com/logsene) - for any sort of logs/events (this one works with Logstash and Kibana 4 as well) Otis ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improving-user-intelligence-with-the-elk-stack-search-analytics-dashboard/28787/4 "2015-09-08T22:08:05Z")
Is that all plug and play, or is there some config required? ---
**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improving-user-intelligence-with-the-elk-stack-search-analytics-dashboard/28787/5 "2015-09-08T22:41:48Z")
Hi Mark, Sematext stuff? There is a little bit of plug and a lot of play: - Site Search Analytics - stick JavaScript in a search results page to capture searches, clicks, etc. All reports out of the box. - SPM - install SPM agent to collect metrics and ship them to SPM. All reports out of the box + custom metrics if you want - Logsene - configure any of a number of available log shippers including standard Logstash with Elasticsearch output simply pointed to [logsene-receiver.sematext.com](http://logsene-receiver.sematext.com). Otis ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improving-user-intelligence-with-the-elk-stack-search-analytics-dashboard/28787/6 "2017-07-05T23:51:37Z")