esctl

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esctl is a command line client built on go-elasticsearch for interacting with elasticsearch clusters.

Getting started

Install

Run one of

• ./build/make-build.sh to build only core features
• ./build/make-buildext.sh to build core features and extensions
• ./build/make-build-opt.sh to build core features and all optional features (including extensions) You will end up with a binary esctl that can then be put into your $PATH

Initializing

Run esctl config generate to generate a config file at ~/.elastic/config with a similar structure to kubeconfig

Usage

Every command has a list of its subcommands and usually correspond to an elastic endpoint. For example, the cat command corresponds to /_cat/ and cat pending-tasks corresponds to /_cat/pending_tasks

Available commands

Core

  cat         Endpoints under /_cat
  config      Interact with a config file
  get         Get a resource
  help        Help about any command
  version     Print the version number of esctl client/server

Extensions

  kibana (planned)  Kibana endpoints
  admin (planned)   Useful commands for elasticsearch administrators

Contributing

In the case of contributing to the core tool or existing extensions, you should raise an issue, fork the repo, and submit a PR referencing the issue

In the case of extending the tool, you should create an extension by doing the following: Run ./build/gen-extension.sh \<your-extension/package name\> Build!

List of current and future features

See this

This link may be a valuable resource in seeing which api endpoints are avaiable.