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Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook - Third Edition

You're reading from  Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781786465580
Pages 696 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Alberto Paro Alberto Paro
Profile icon Alberto Paro

Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
Getting Started Downloading and Setup Managing Mappings Basic Operations Search Text and Numeric Queries Relationships and Geo Queries Aggregations Scripting Managing Clusters and Nodes Backup and Restore User Interfaces Ingest Java Integration Scala Integration Python Integration Plugin Development Big Data Integration

Using Kibana dev-console


X-Pack provides cluster functionalities that allow you to control and monitor your nodes and cluster. This is a very useful component of X-Pack as it is the lifesaver on large installations.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.

You also need a functional Kibana installation as described in the Installing Kibana and X-Pack recipe. The X-Pack is not needed.

How to do it...

To use X-Pack Elasticsearch monitor, we will perform the following steps:

  1. We access the Dev Tools section of Kibana as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Now we can use the dev console to create/execute/test queries and other Elasticsearch HTTP API via it as shown in the following screenshot:

How it works...

The Kibana console is very similar to the Cerebro interface that we have previously seen.

It allows us to execute every kind of REST API call via the http interface...

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