Reader small image

You're reading from  Elasticsearch 7.0 Cookbook. - Fourth Edition

Product typeBook
Published inApr 2019
Reading LevelBeginner
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781789956504
Edition4th Edition
Languages
Right arrow
Author (1)
Alberto Paro
Alberto Paro
author image
Alberto Paro

Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
Read more about Alberto Paro

Right arrow

Using the task management API

Elasticsearch 5.x and later versions allow you to define the actions that are executed to the server side. These actions can take some time to complete and they can use huge cluster resources. The most common ones are as follows:

  • delete_by_query
  • update_by_query
  • reindex

When these actions are called, they create a server-side task that executes the job; the task management API allows you to control these jobs.

Getting ready

You will need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation – similar to the one that we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

In order to execute the commands, any HTTP client can be used, such as curl...

lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Page
You have been reading a chapter from
Elasticsearch 7.0 Cookbook. - Fourth Edition
Published in: Apr 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789956504

Author (1)

author image
Alberto Paro

Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
Read more about Alberto Paro