Curator (Elasticsearch)

Elasticsearch Curator is a command-line tool helps you manage, your Elasticsearch indices and snapshots. It only allow to delete entire indices

• curator
• pip install elasticsearch-curator

curator --help
Usage: curator [OPTIONS] ACTION_FILE

  Curator for Elasticsearch indices. 

  See http://elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current

Options:
  --config PATH  Path to configuration file. Default: ~/.curator/curator.yml
  --dry-run      Do not perform any changes.
  --version      Show the version and exit.
  --help         Show this message and exit.

Related terms

• Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) policies

Activities

• Review Curator YAML configuration file documentation: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/configfile.html
• Review curator logs
• Review examples, https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/examples.html, including: allocation, close, cluster_routing, create_index, delete_indices, delete_snapshots, forcemerge, open, reindex, replicas, restore, rollover, shrink, snapshot

See also

• ELK: curator, logs, ILM, Snapshots
• Elasticsearch: /_cat/, /_nodes/, /_cluster/, /_snapshot/, /_ilm/, /_xpack/, /_search/, /_security/, /my-index/, /_bulk
• Elasticsearch, installation, ELK, Elastic X-Pack, elasticsearch.yml, logs, ECK, Elasticsearch curl URLs, Elastisearch REST APIs, /_cat/, /_cluster/, /_xpack/, QueryShardException, Elasticsearch index, ELK backup and restore, elasticsearch-cli, Elasticsearch versions, ElasticSearch Snapshot Lifecycle Management (SLM), Low disk watermark, Elasticsearch storage, Elasticsearch users, Elasticsearch roles, search context, shards, Elastic Cloud, Elastic Licensing, ElasticSearch alerts

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/faq_partial_delete.html