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ElasticSearch Cookbook

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

ElasticSearch Cookbook

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

ElasticSearch is one of the most promising NoSQL technologies available and is built to provide a scalable search solution with built-in support for near real-time search and multi-tenancy. This practical guide is a complete reference for using ElasticSearch and covers 360 degrees of the ElasticSearch ecosystem. We will get started by showing you how to choose the correct transport layer, communicate with the server, and create custom internal actions for boosting tailored needs. Starting with the basics of the ElasticSearch architecture and how to efficiently index, search, and execute analytics on it, you will learn how to extend ElasticSearch by scripting and monitoring its behaviour. Step-by-step, this book will help you to improve your ability to manage data in indexing with more tailored mappings, along with searching and executing analytics with facets. The topics explored in the book also cover how to integrate ElasticSearch with Python and Java applications. This comprehensive guide will allow you to master storing, searching, and analyzing data with ElasticSearch.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
ElasticSearch Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Deleting an index


The counterpart of creating an index is deleting one.

Deleting an index means deleting its shards, mappings, and data. There are many common scenarios when we need to delete an index. Some of them are as follows:

  • Removing it because the data that it contains is not needed anymore

  • Reset an index for a scratch restart

  • Delete an index that has some missing shard due to some failure to bring back the cluster in a valid state

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and the existing index created in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

The HTTP method used to delete an index is DELETE.

The URL contains only the index name, which is as follows:

http://<server>/<index_name>

For deleting an index, we need to perform the following steps:

  1. From command line, we can execute a DELETE call as follows:

    curl -XDELETE http://127.0.0.1:9200/myindex
    
  2. The result returned by ElasticSearch, if everything is all right, should be as follows:

    {"ok":true,"acknowledged":true}
  3. If the...