Installing and using BigDesk

BigDesk is a wonderful web app developed by Lukáš Vlček, installable as an ElasticSearch plugin that allows us to monitor and analyze real-time cluster status.

With this application, it's possible to monitor both clusters and nodes in which ElasticSearch is running.

It's a modern HTML5 application and only requires a modern browser.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster.

How to do it...

To install the BigDesk plugin, we will perform the following steps:

1. BigDesk plugin is a site plugin type, a plugin composed only of HTML, CSS, images, and JavaScript. It can be installed using the following command:

   bin/plugin -install lukas-vlcek/bigdesk
   

2. Check in your config/elasticsearch.yml configuration file whether JSONP is active (by default it is disabled for security reasons):

   http.jsonp.enable: true

3. After a node restart, if everything is alright it should appear in the site's list.

   [INFO ][node] [Cassidy, Theresa] version[0.90...