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Patrick Copeland committed Nov 14, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ Enabling analytics and advanced queries is the primary advantage of running
several tools against a sample, extracting as much information as possible, and
storing the output in a common datastore.

The following are some example types of analytics and queries that may be of interest:
The following are some example types of analytics and queries that may be of
interest:

- cluster samples
- outlier samples
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```ssdeep.compare``` on the results, and update the documents in Elasticsearch.

### Deployment ###
We use a Celery beat task to kick off the ssdeep comparison nightly at 2am local time, when the system is at lower user loads. This ensures that the analytic will be run on all samples without adding an exorbinant load to the system.
[celery beat](http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/periodic-tasks.html)
is used to schedule and kick off the ssdeep comparison task nightly at 2am
local time, when the system is experiencing less load from users. This ensures
that the analytic will be run on all samples without adding an exorbinant load
to the system.

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