Connecting to OpenSearch Using cURL

Prerequisites

Examples

•   The following command demonstrates how to verify that you can connect to the cluster. This should return a brief response containing the cluster name, version, and a few other details.
  curl -u icopensearch:<Password> "https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200"

  1	curl -u icopensearch:<Password> "https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200"

•   The following command demonstrates how to index a document (The index ‘testing’ will automatically be created if it does not exist).
  curl -X PUT -u icopensearch:<Password> "https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/testing/_doc/1?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d' { "description" : "this is a test", "timestamp" : "1970-01-01T00:00:01" }'

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  curl -X PUT -u icopensearch:<Password> "https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/testing/_doc/1?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d' {     "description" : "this is a test",     "timestamp" : "1970-01-01T00:00:01" }'

•  The following command demonstrates how to retrieve the document indexed in the previous step.
  curl -u icopensearch:<Password> "https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/testing/_doc/1?pretty"

  1	curl -u icopensearch:<Password> "https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/testing/_doc/1?pretty"

Please note, these examples use the default icopensearch user. For security reasons, we recommend changing the password for the icopensearch user. In addition, we recommend creating a different user for use by your application, with more limited permissions. For more information, please see our support documentation page on OpenSearch Security Access Control