Managing index settings

Index settings are more important because they allow you to control several important Elasticsearch functionalities, such as sharding or replication, caching, term management, routing, and analysis. The goal of this is to understand how to manage index settings.

Getting ready

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

To execute the commands in this recipe, you can use any HTTP client, 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, please use the index we created in the Creating an index recipe.

How to do it...

To retrieve the settings of your current index, use the following URL format:

http://<server>/<index_name...