Elasticsearch Cheatsheet

Create New Index

PUT index_name

Create Index Teamplate

PUT _index_template/index_name
{
  "index_patterns": ["index_name*"], 
  "allow_auto_create": true,
  "priority": 100,
  "template": {
    "settings": {
      "number_of_shards": 4,
      "number_of_replicas": 1,
      "index.lifecycle.name": "testindex-ilm",
      "index.lifecycle.rollover_alias": "index_name_main"
    }
  }
}

Create bootstrap index

PUT amolindex_rpm_url_index_main-000001
{
  "aliases": {
    "amolindex_rpm_url_index_main": {
      "is_write_index": true
    }
  }
}

Delete index

DELETE dm-logstash-apache-access-log

List all indexs

GET /_cat/indices/*

List all indexs with shards

GET _cat/shards?v=true

List all shards for specific index

GET _cat/shards?v=true&index=test_index*

Display elasticsearch node details

GET _cat/nodes?v=true&

Display elasticsearch nodes heap.max

GET _cat/nodes?v=true&h=heap.max

Display elasticsearch node JVM details

GET _nodes/stats?human&filter_path=nodes.*.name,nodes.*.indices.mappings.total_estimated_overhead*,nodes.*.jvm.mem.heap_max*

Diplay index details

GET /_cat/indices/test-index-name*?v

Display index stats

GET new-index/_stats

Diplay index details with parameter specification

GET /_cat/indices/*test-logstash-apache-access*?h=index,pri,rep,store.size&bytes=gb

Display index metadata

GET /new-index/_settings

Display cluster health

GET /_cat/health

Display cluster settings

GET _cluster/settings

Change index to readonly

PUT amolindex_typ_tag_vw_index/_settings
{
  "index": {
    "blocks.read_only": true
  }
}

Attach ILM to an index

POST test_index-metrics-prog-2024.10.*/_ilm/remove

Remove ILM from an index

PUT test_index-metrics-prog-2024.10.*/_settings
{
  "index": {
    "lifecycle": {
      "name": "test_index-metric-policy"
    }
  }
}

Stop Cluster rebalancing

PUT _cluster/settings
{
  "transient": {
    "cluster.routing.rebalance.enable": "none"
  }
}

Start Cluster rebalancing

PUT _cluster/settings
{
  "transient": {
    "cluster.routing.rebalance.enable": "all"
  }
}