curator(1) Elasticsearch time-series index manager

SYNOPSIS

curator [-h] [-v] [--host HOST] [--url_prefix URL_PREFIX] [--port PORT] [--ssl] [--auth AUTH] [--timeout TIMEOUT] [--master-only] [-n] [-D] [--loglevel LOG_LEVEL] [--logfile LOG_FILE] [--logformat LOGFORMAT] COMMAND [COMMAND_OPTS] ARGUMENTS

DESCRIPTION

curator helps manage Elasticsearch time-series indices. It provides an easy way to perform index administration tasks, such as managing aliases, optimizing indices, changing the replica count and modifying index allocation using routing tags.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
show program usage and exit
-v, --version
show program's version number and exit
--host HOST
Elasticsearch host. Default: localhost
--url_prefix URL_PREFIX
Elasticsearch HTTP url prefix. Default: none
--port PORT
Elasticsearch port. Default: 9200
--ssl
Connect to Elasticsearch through SSL. Default: false
--auth AUTH
Use Basic Authentication ex: user:pass Default: None
--timeout TIMEOUT
Connection timeout in seconds. Default: 30
--master-only
Verify that the node is the elected master before continuing
-n, --dry-run
If true, does not perform any changes to the Elasticsearch indices.
-D, --debug
Debug mode
--loglevel LOG_LEVEL
Log level
--logfile LOG_FILE
log file
--logformat LOGFORMAT
Log output format [default|logstash]. Default: default

COMMANDS

Each of the following commands accepts a number of options and positional arguments. Run curator COMMAND --help for command-specific help. Available commands are:
alias
Aliasing operations
allocation
Apply required index routing allocation rule
bloom
Disable bloom filter cache for indices
close
Close indices
delete
Delete indices
optimize
Optimize indices
replicas
Change replica count of indices
show
Show indices or snapshots
snapshot
Take snapshots of indices (Backup)

AUTHOR

curator was originally written by Aaron Mildenstein <[email protected]>. It is currently maintained by Elasticsearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org/>.

This manual page was written by Apollon Oikonomopoulos <[email protected]> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

LICENSE

This software is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See /usr/share/doc/elasticsearch-curator/copyright for more details.

Copyright 2011-2015 Elasticsearch and contributors.