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Elasticsearch
The following assumes that elasticsearch is running on the localhost on port 9200.
General Info about elasticsearch instance
How is elasticsearch doing?
curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_cat/health?v&pretty' curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_cat/nodes?v’
What are the indices on this instance?
curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v&pretty’
Searching Data
Viewing Data
This will give you, by default, the first 20 results as prettified JSON
curl –XGET ‘localhost:9200/index/_search?pretty’
Sorting Examples
Search index, matching all, and sorting by field
curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/index/_search?q=*&sort=field:asc&pretty’
Search index, matching all, and sorting by field
curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/index/_search?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d’
{
"query": { "match_all": {} },
"sort": [
{ "field": "asc" }
]
}'
Adding Information
Adding an index
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/newindex?pretty’
Inserting documents to an index
Insert the JSON document (after the -d) into the index with the id newid:
curl –XPUT ‘localhost:9200/index/external/newid?pretty’ –d’{“field”:”data”}’
