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Connecting to Elasticsearch Using cURL

For Legacy Support Purposes Only

In this example, we will use curl command to communicate with the Elasticsearch cluster. Prerequisites Before making a curl request to the cluster, you first need to whitelist your public IP on your cluster. For more details on how to connect to your cluster click here. Following are few curl example to communicate with your cluster Checking your cluster health

curl -X PUT -u icelasticsearch:password https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/_cluster/health -k

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						curl -X PUT -u icelasticsearch:password https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/_cluster/health -k

Creating indices

curl -X PUT -u icelasticsearch:password https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/testing/_doc/1?pretty -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"description" : "this is a test",
"timestamp" : "2020-01-16T04:32:49"
}' -k

				
					
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						curl -X PUT -u icelasticsearch:password https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/testing/_doc/1?pretty -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"description" : "this is a test",
"timestamp" : "2020-01-16T04:32:49"
}' -k

					

			

Deleting Indices

curl -X DELETE -u icelasticsearch:password https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/name -k

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						curl -X DELETE -u icelasticsearch:password https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/name -k

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