Refreshing an index

Elasticsearch allows the user to control the state of the searcher using a forced refresh on an index. If not forced, the newly indexed document will only be searchable after a fixed time interval (usually 1 second).

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

To execute these commands, HTTP clients can be used, such as curl (https://curl.haxx.se/), postman (https://www.getpostman.com/), or others. I suggest using the Kibana console as it provides code completion and better character escaping for Elasticsearch.

To execute the following commands correctly...