Get index settings

Inspect number of shards, replicas, refresh interval

curl -s http://localhost:9200/<index>/_settings | jq .
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elasticsearch19 commands
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elasticsearch

More elasticsearch commands

  • Reindex
    curl -X POST http://localhost:9200/_reindex -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"source":{"index":"old"},"dest":{"index":"new"}}'

    Copy documents from one index to another

  • Force merge index
    curl -X POST 'http://localhost:9200/<index>/_forcemerge?max_num_segments=1'

    Reduce segment count; useful before making index read-only

  • Node stats
    curl -s http://localhost:9200/_cat/nodes?v

    Show all ES nodes with JVM heap, load, roles

  • Search query
    curl -s -X POST http://localhost:9200/<index>/_search -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"query":{"match":{"message":"error"}}}'

    Full-text search for documents matching a term

  • Snapshot create
    curl -X PUT http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/<repo>/<snapshot>

    Create a snapshot to the registered repository

all 19 elasticsearch commands