Installing and using ElasticSerach-head

The previous plugin allows monitoring all cluster/node statistics; ElasticSearch-head by Ben Birch mainly focuses on data management in your cluster.

It allows iterating with your data via a nice web interface. It speeds up a lot of operations that otherwise require you to write long curl commands.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and a modern HTML5 browser.

How to do it…

For installing the Head plugin, we will perform the steps given as follows:

1. The plugin is a site plugin: an ElasticSearch composed only by HTML, CSS, images and JavaScript. It can be installed as usual by means of the following code snippet:

   bin/plugin -install mobz/elasticsearch-head

2. After a node restarts, if it's all right, it should compare the following values in site list:

   [INFO ][node] [Cassidy, Theresa] version[0.90.3], pid[37214], build[5c38d60/2013-08-08T12:28:31Z]
   [INFO ][node] [Cassidy, Theresa] initializing ...
   [INFO ][plugins] [Cassidy, Theresa...