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Learning Elasticsearch

By : Abhishek Andhavarapu
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Learning Elasticsearch

By: Abhishek Andhavarapu

Overview of this book

Elasticsearch is a modern, fast, distributed, scalable, fault tolerant, and open source search and analytics engine. You can use Elasticsearch for small or large applications with billions of documents. It is built to scale horizontally and can handle both structured and unstructured data. Packed with easy-to- follow examples, this book will ensure you will have a firm understanding of the basics of Elasticsearch and know how to utilize its capabilities efficiently. You will install and set up Elasticsearch and Kibana, and handle documents using the Distributed Document Store. You will see how to query, search, and index your data, and perform aggregation-based analytics with ease. You will see how to use Kibana to explore and visualize your data. Further on, you will learn to handle document relationships, work with geospatial data, and much more, with this easy-to-follow guide. Finally, you will see how you can set up and scale your Elasticsearch clusters in production environments.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
10
Exploring Elastic Stack (Elastic Cloud, Security, Graph, and Alerting)

Health of the cluster

Elasticsearch provides various APIs for operational management of clusters and nodes. One of the important APIs is cluster API. In the previous section, we started a single-node cluster. We can check the health of the cluster using the cluster API as follows:

http://127.0.0.1:9200/_cluster/health?pretty

The pretty flag at the end of the URL makes the JSON response more readable. The response from the cluster API is shown next:

{
"cluster_name": "es-dev",
"status": "green",
"timed_out": false,
"number_of_nodes": 1,
"number_of_data_nodes": 1,
"active_primary_shards": 0,
"active_shards": 0,
"relocating_shards": 0,
"initializing_shards": 0,
"unassigned_shards": 0,
"delayed_unassigned_shards": 0,
"number_of_pending_tasks...