You have to call it on indices. Currently you are using exists of search class which tells you whether given document exists in the index and not the index itself. Try this code if es.indices.exists(index=”index”): Your code for search There are also more options if you want to use.
You need to pass the username and password to the Elasticsearch object as shown below: es = Elasticsearch([‘http://localhost:8080’], http_auth=(‘user’, ‘pass’))
Curator would be an ideal match here. You can find the link here – https://github.com/elastic/curator A command like below should work just fine – curator –host <IP> delete indices –older-than 30 –prefix “twitter-” –time-unit days –timestring ‘%Y-%m-%d’ You can keep in this in the CRON for removing the indices occasionally. You can find some examples … Read more
Elasticsearch can’t be run an root user. Elasticsearch itself restricts this. A new user named elasticsearch and group named elasticsearch is automatically created when we install elasticsearch. Can check entries by using following commands $ sudo less /etc/passwd | grep “elasticsearch” $ sudo less /etc/group | grep “elasticsearch” We need to change ownership of all … Read more