- Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook Third Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1. Getting Started
- 2. Downloading and Setup
- Introduction
- Downloading and installing Elasticsearch
- Setting up networking
- Setting up a node
- Setting up for Linux systems
- Setting up different node types
- Setting up a client node
- Setting up an ingestion node
- Installing plugins in Elasticsearch
- Installing plugins manually
- Removing a plugin
- Changing logging settings
- Setting up a node via Docker
- 3. Managing Mappings
- Introduction
- Using explicit mapping creation
- Mapping base types
- Mapping arrays
- Mapping an object
- Mapping a document
- Using dynamic templates in document mapping
- Managing nested objects
- Managing child document
- Adding a field with multiple mapping
- Mapping a GeoPoint field
- Mapping a GeoShape field
- Mapping an IP field
- Mapping an attachment field
- Adding metadata to a mapping
- Specifying a different analyzer
- Mapping a completion field
- 4. Basic Operations
- Introduction
- Creating an index
- Deleting an index
- Opening/closing an index
- Putting a mapping in an index
- Getting a mapping
- Reindexing an index
- See also
- Refreshing an index
- Flushing an index
- ForceMerge an index
- Shrinking an index
- Checking if an index or type exists
- Managing index settings
- Using index aliases
- Rollover an index
- Indexing a document
- Getting a document
- Deleting a document
- Updating a document
- Speeding up atomic operations (bulk operations)
- Speeding up GET operations (multi GET)
- 5. Search
- Introduction
- Executing a search
- Sorting results
- Highlighting results
- Executing a scrolling query
- Using the search_after functionality
- Returning inner hits in results
- Suggesting a correct query
- Counting matched results
- Explaining a query
- Query profiling
- Deleting by query
- Updating by query
- Matching all the documents
- Using a boolean query
- 6. Text and Numeric Queries
- Introduction
- Using a term query
- Using a terms query
- Using a prefix query
- Using a wildcard query
- Using a regexp query
- Using span queries
- Using a match query
- Using a query string query
- Using a simple query string query
- Using the range query
- The common terms query
- Using IDs query
- Using the function score query
- Using the exists query
- Using the template query
- 7. Relationships and Geo Queries
- 8. Aggregations
- Introduction
- Executing an aggregation
- Executing stats aggregations
- Executing terms aggregation
- Executing significant terms aggregation
- Executing range aggregations
- Executing histogram aggregations
- Executing date histogram aggregations
- Executing filter aggregations
- Executing filters aggregations
- Executing global aggregations
- Executing geo distance aggregations
- Executing children aggregations
- Executing nested aggregations
- Executing top hit aggregations
- Executing a matrix stats aggregation
- Executing geo bounds aggregations
- Executing geo centroid aggregations
- 9. Scripting
- 10. Managing Clusters and Nodes
- 11. Backup and Restore
- 12. User Interfaces
- 13. Ingest
- 14. Java Integration
- Introduction
- Creating a standard Java HTTP client
- Creating an HTTP Elasticsearch client
- Creating a native client
- Managing indices with the native client
- Managing mappings
- Managing documents
- Managing bulk actions
- Building a query
- Executing a standard search
- Executing a search with aggregations
- Executing a scroll search
- 15. Scala Integration
- 16. Python Integration
- 17. Plugin Development
- 18. Big Data Integration
X-Pack provides cluster functionalities that allow you to control and monitor your nodes and cluster. This is a very useful component of X-Pack as it is the lifesaver on large installations.
You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.
You also need a functional Kibana installation as described in the Installing Kibana and X-Pack recipe. The X-Pack is not needed.
To use X-Pack Elasticsearch monitor, we will perform the following steps:
- We access the Dev Tools section of Kibana as shown in the following screenshot:
- Now we can use the dev console to create/execute/test queries and other Elasticsearch HTTP API via it as shown in the following screenshot:
The Kibana console is very similar to the Cerebro interface that we have previously seen.
It allows us to execute every kind of REST API call via the http interface to Elasticsearch. It can be used for several purposes such as follows:
- Creating complex queries and aggregations. The console interface helps the user by providing code completion and syntax checking during editing.
- Analyzing the returned results. It is very useful to check particular aggregation responses or the structure of the API answers.
- Testing/Debugging queries before embedding them in your application code.
- Executing REST services that are now wrapped in Elasticsearch interfaces, such as repository/snapshot/restore ones.
The Kibana Dev Tools also provides support to drill down the times needed to execute a particular query via the Profiler section. As the execution of a query with some aggregation can be very complex and can take a lot of time to profile the query, this is the most advanced interface available in Elasticsearch to profile query execution. It's available in the open source part of Kibana as shown in the following screenshot:
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