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Published inJul 2016
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ISBN-139781784397807
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About the Author Dan is a software engineer with a passion for writing secure, clean, and articulate code. He enjoys working with a variety of programming languages and software frameworks, particularly Python, Elasticsearch, and frontend technologies. Dan currently works on geospatial web applications and data processing systems. Dan has been a user and advocate of Elasticsearch since 2011. He has given talks about Elasticsearch at various meetup groups, and is the author of the Python Elasticsearch client “rawes.” Dan was also a technical editor for the Elasticsearch Cookbook, Second Edition, by Alberto Paro (ISBN: 1783554835). Acknowledgements I would like to thank my beautiful wife, Julie, for putting up with me while I wrote this book. Thanks for supporting me every step of the way. I would also like to thank my friends and colleagues James Cubeta, Joe McMahon, and Mahmoud Lababidi, who shared their insight, time, and support. I would like to give a special thanks to Abe Usher – you have been an incredible mentor over the years. Finally, thanks to everyone at Packt Publishing for helping to make this book happen. A special thanks to Merint Mathew, Sonali Vernekar, Husain Kanchwala, and Amey Varangaonkar for your valuable and careful feedback.
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Understanding your cluster


Elasticsearch has many different moving parts, and it can get a little complicated to ensure that everything runs properly. Fortunately, there are some great open source monitoring tools that are available to help you keep tabs on your cluster. This section will cover how to install some of the most popular and useful monitoring tools on your cluster, and the following two chapters will go into these tools in more detail.

Installing Elasticsearch-head

Elasticsearch-head is a simple, free, open source tool that provides a high-level examination of your cluster. It is one of the most useful tools used when administering and monitoring the health of a cluster. Elasticsearch-head only needs to be installed on one node in your cluster. However, we recommend installing it on all nodes for redundancy. It's installed as an Elasticsearch plugin.

If you have an Internet connection, you can install Elasticsearch-head with the Elasticsearch plugin utility, as follows:

sudo /usr...
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About the Author Dan is a software engineer with a passion for writing secure, clean, and articulate code. He enjoys working with a variety of programming languages and software frameworks, particularly Python, Elasticsearch, and frontend technologies. Dan currently works on geospatial web applications and data processing systems. Dan has been a user and advocate of Elasticsearch since 2011. He has given talks about Elasticsearch at various meetup groups, and is the author of the Python Elasticsearch client “rawes.” Dan was also a technical editor for the Elasticsearch Cookbook, Second Edition, by Alberto Paro (ISBN: 1783554835). Acknowledgements I would like to thank my beautiful wife, Julie, for putting up with me while I wrote this book. Thanks for supporting me every step of the way. I would also like to thank my friends and colleagues James Cubeta, Joe McMahon, and Mahmoud Lababidi, who shared their insight, time, and support. I would like to give a special thanks to Abe Usher – you have been an incredible mentor over the years. Finally, thanks to everyone at Packt Publishing for helping to make this book happen. A special thanks to Merint Mathew, Sonali Vernekar, Husain Kanchwala, and Amey Varangaonkar for your valuable and careful feedback.
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