Installing and using ElasticSearch Head
The previous plugin allows us to monitor all cluster/node statistics. ElasticSearch Head by Ben Birch mainly focuses on data management of your cluster. It allows you to manage your data and the shards of your cluster via a nice web interface; using it is way faster than using the curl command.
Getting ready
You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and a modern HTML5 browser.
How to do it...
To install the Head plugin, we will perform the following steps:
- The ElasticSearch Head plugin is a type of site plugin; it is composed only of HTML, CSS, images, and JavaScript. It can be installed by using the following command:
bin/plugin -install mobz/elasticsearch-head - After a node restart, if everything goes well, it ...
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