liip/elasticsearch-isalive

Name: elasticsearch-isalive

Owner: Liip

Description: A plugin which checks cluster health status

Created: 2013-04-29 12:46:54.0

Updated: 2013-10-03 01:42:20.0

Pushed: 2013-05-14 09:55:40.0

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README

elasticsearch-isalive A plugin which checks cluster health status

elasticsearch-isalive

An elastic search site plugin which checks the cluster health status and repondes “Is up and Running!” for status “green” or “yellow”. Otherwise it will respond with: “is gone!“.

This plugin can be used for loadbalancers to determin if a node is up and running.

Installing and Running

Running as a plugin of ElasticSearch

sudo elasticsearch/bin/plugin -install liip/elasticsearch-isalive
open http://localhost:9200/_plugin/isalive/

This will automatically download the latest version of elasticsearch-isalive from github and run it as a plugin within the elasticsearch cluster. In this mode:

• elasticsearch provides a simple webserver to run head
• elasticsearch-isalive automatically connects to the node that is running it
• is available at http://localhost:9200/_plugin/isalive/ (or whatever the address of your cluster is)

URL Parameters

currently none