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ElasticSearch Cookbook

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

ElasticSearch Cookbook

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
ElasticSearch Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing and using BigDesk


BigDesk is a wonderful web app developed by Lukáš Vlček, installable as an ElasticSearch plugin that allows us to monitor and analyze real-time cluster status.

With this application, it's possible to monitor both clusters and nodes in which ElasticSearch is running.

It's a modern HTML5 application and only requires a modern browser.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster.

How to do it...

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

  1. BigDesk plugin is a site plugin type, a plugin composed only of HTML, CSS, images, and JavaScript. It can be installed using the following command:

    bin/plugin -install lukas-vlcek/bigdesk
    
  2. Check in your config/elasticsearch.yml configuration file whether JSONP is active (by default it is disabled for security reasons):

    http.jsonp.enable: true
  3. After a node restart, if everything is alright it should appear in the site's list.

    [INFO ][node] [Cassidy, Theresa] version[0.90.3], pid[37214], build[5c38d60/2013...