Install the elasticsearch plugin for elasticsearch

Why use elasticsearch-head

The elasticsearch service returns a json interface, which does not seem very intuitive, and the head can provide a friendly interface, at the same time can also view basic information, rest request simulation and basic data retrieval

Download, search for elasticsearch-head on github, find the download link, and download

wget https://github.com/mobz/elasticsearch-head/archive/master.zip

Unzip,

uzip master.zip

Enter the downloaded directory and download dependent environment

cd elasticsearch-head-master/
npm install

 

Start the service,

npm run start

View, visit http: // localhost: 9100 /

The cluster health: not connected appears above because the elasticsearch and head plug-ins are two separate processes. The access between them is cross-domain, and the elasticsearch configuration needs to be modified.

vim config/elasticsearch.yml 

Add the following content at the end of the file:

http.cors.enabled: true
http.cors.allow-origin: "*"

Restart es in the background

sh ./bin/elasticsearch -d

Restart the head plugin, and visit the browser, the following content appears