Chapter 8. Administrating Your Cluster
In the previous chapter, we learned how node discovery works in Elasticsearch and how to tune it. We also learned about the recovery and gateway modules. We saw how to prepare our cluster for high indexing and querying use cases by tuning some of the Elasticsearch internals and what those internals are. Finally, we used index templates and dynamic mappings to easily control dynamic indices' structure. By the end of this chapter, you will learn the following aspects:
Using Elasticsearch snapshotting functionality
Monitoring our cluster using the Elasticsearch API
Adjusting cluster rebalancing to match our needs
Moving shards around by using the Elasticsearch API
Warming up
Using aliasing to ease the everyday work
Installing the Elasticsearch plugins
Using the Elasticsearch update settings API
