A new feature available in Elasticsearch 5.x is the profile API. This allows the user to track the time spent by Elasticsearch in executing a search or an aggregation.
You will need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as used in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.
To execute curl
via a command line, you need to install curl
for your operating system.
To correctly execute the following commands, you will need an index populated with the chapter_05/populate_query.sh
script available in the online code.