COG - Elasticsearch

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Elasticsearch is a distributed RESTful search engine built for the cloud. Features include:

  • Distributed and Highly Available, Search Engine.
  • Multi Tenant.
  • Document oriented.
  • Reliable, Asynchronous Write Behind for long term persistency.
  • (Near) Real Time Search.

COG - Elasticsearch includes:

  • Elasticsearch 7.2
  • 64-bit Linux

Support

For bug reports, feature requests, or general questions, please contact us.

Directions

  1. Launch AMI from the Amazon Marketplace
  2. SSH into your instance as the ec2-user user.
  3. Elasticsearch is already running and listening on port 9200
  4. Edit "/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml" if you want to change options.
    • Restart server with "/etc/init.d/elasticsearch restart"

Getting Started with Elasticsearch

COG - Elasticsearch is already up and running when you start an instance. Elasticsearch provides a very comprehensive and powerful REST API that you can use to interact with your cluster.

See: Elasticsearch documentation for comprehensive documentation.

Quick Start for COG - Elasticsearch

Among the few things that can be done with the API are as follows:

Cluster Health

curl -X GET "localhost:9200/_cat/health?v"

List Indices

curl -X GET "localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v"

Create an Index

curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/customer?pretty"
curl -X GET "localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v"

Index and Query a Document

curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/customer/_doc/1?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
  "name": "John Doe"
}
'

curl -X GET "localhost:9200/customer/_doc/1?pretty"

Delete an Index

curl -X DELETE "localhost:9200/customer?pretty"
curl -X GET "localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v"