Installing and using Marvel

Similar to Sematext SPM, Marvel is a commercial product (freely available for development) built by ElasticSearch to monitor and manage an ElasticSearch cluster.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster.

How to do it...

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

  1. The plugin is composed of a native component (JAR) and a site component (HTML, CSS, images, and JavaScript). It can be installed using the following command:
    bin/plugin -i elasticsearch/marvel/latest
    
  2. After a node restart, if everything goes well, it should appear in the sites list.
    [INFO ][node ] [ESCookbookNode] version[1.3.1], pid[62763], build[2de6dc5/2014-07-28T14:45:15Z] [INFO ][node ] [ESCookbookNode] initializing ... [INFO ...

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