Installing and using BigDesk

BigDesk is a wonderful web app developed by Lukáš Vlček, installable as an ElasticSearch plugin that allows us to monitor and analyze real-time cluster status.

With this application, it's possible to monitor both clusters and nodes in which ElasticSearch is running.

It's a modern HTML5 application and only requires a modern browser.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster.

How to do it...

To install the BigDesk plugin, we will perform the following steps:

  1. BigDesk plugin is a site plugin type, a plugin composed only of HTML, CSS, images, and JavaScript. It can be installed using the following command:
    bin/plugin -install lukas-vlcek/bigdesk
  2. Check in your config/elasticsearch.yml configuration file whether ...

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