Blog Archive for October 11, 2016

Searching Elasticsearch

October 11, 2016

I wanted to return a list of entries from ElasticSearch, and I wanted to just return ones where the _type field was set to c.

http://host:9200/logstash-2016.10.05/_search?q=_type:c&pretty=true

This URL will filter to just the rows with a _type of c.

{ "took" : 28, "timed_out" : false, "_shards" …

Listing ElasticSearch indexes

October 11, 2016

To find out a top level list of indexes in an ElasticSearch database, use:

http://host:9200/_cat/indices?v

which returns something like

health status index pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size yellow open logstash-2016.10.06 5 1 18908 0 6mb 6mb yellow open .kibana 1 1 5 1 25.4kb 25.4kb yellow …