Installing and using ElasticSearch Head

The previous plugin allows us to monitor all cluster/node statistics. ElasticSearch Head by Ben Birch mainly focuses on data management of your cluster. It allows you to manage your data and the shards of your cluster via a nice web interface; using it is way faster than using the curl command.

Getting ready

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

How to do it...

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

1. The ElasticSearch Head plugin is a type of site plugin; it is composed only of HTML, CSS, images, and JavaScript. It can be installed by using the following command:

   bin/plugin -install mobz/elasticsearch-head
   

2. After a node restart, if everything goes well, it should appear in the sites list, as follows:

   [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] loaded [], sites [head...