Category Archives: ElasticSearch

Managing Elasticsearch aliases using Curator

This tutorial on managing Elasticsearch aliases using Curator will help you to manage your Elasticsearch aliases better. There are not many detailed tutorials on this topic and hence this post. I hope that at the end of this tutorial you will appreciate the power curator brings to your hands.

Taking Elasticsearch snapshots using Curator

This tutorial on taking Elasticsearch snapshots using curator will be divided into sections. One obvious section is how to take snapshots. Other less obvious part will be on configuring a shared directory using Network file sharing on Linux. I will be using a RHEL 7 based cluster of three machines for this tutorial. Once you… Read More »

Authentication in Elasticsearch without shield or x-pack

UPDATE: Elasticsearch has made security free. Please check it out. Authentication in Elasticsearch without using x-pack or shield. Possible? Yes. In this post I will show you how to do it using excellent readonlyrest plugin written by sscarduzio. The reason I used this plugin was the ease of use as well as the way it… Read More »

ElasticSearch Sample Data

This ElasticSearch Sample Data is to be used for learning purpose only. It is randomly generated but still care has been taken to make it look like real world data. UPDATE: A follow up to this post has been published. I will highly recommend that you have a look at it. I use Elasticsearch 7.2.0… Read More »