Elastico is a Powershell module that allows to perform some operations with an Elasticsearch cluster. The module can run on both Windows and Linux and runs on both legacy Powershell and Powershell core.

You can install the module from the command line by running the following command:

Install-Module Elastico

The current version of the module supports the following functionalities:

• list/add/remove indices
• list/add/remove repositories (for backup)
• list/add/remove snapshots (for backup)
• get cluster health
• get cluster info
• search
• get/set index settings

Documentation is available on github pages

The module supports versions 2, 5 and 6 of elasticsearch.

Because the server API can change between versions, for compatibility reasons, the cmdlets are specific to each single version of elasticsearch supported.

So for example, instead of having a single Get-ElasticClusterHealt cmdlet, there are 3 cmdlets, more specifically:

• Get-ElasticV2ClusterHealth
• Get-ElasticV5ClusterHealth
• Get-ElasticV6ClusterHealth.

In order to avoid compatibility issues, you will need to know in advance the version of elasticsearch that you are dealing with, and use the relevant cmdlet.

Support for version 1 of Elasticsearch has been dropped, but you can still download an older version of the module (0.6.x) if you need to connect to an elasticsearch v1.

To get a cluster health status

Get-ElasticV2ClusterHealth -Node "http://localhost:9200"

ActivePrimaryShards  : 0
ActiveShards         : 0
Name                 : elasticsearch
InitializingShards   : 0
NumberOfDataNodes    : 1
NumberOfNodes        : 1
NumberOfPendingTasks : 0
RelocatingShards     : 0
UnassignedShards     : 0
Status               : green

To get the list of indices available in a cluster

Get-ElasticV2Index -Node "http://localhost:9200" | Format-Table -Property Name,Status

Name      Status
----      ------
testindex open

To create a new index

New-ElasticV2Index -Node "http://localhost:9200" -Index "testindex"

DocsCount        : 0
DocsDeleted      : 0
Health           : red
Name             : testindex
Primary          : 5
PrimaryStoreSize :
Replica          : 1
Status           : open
StoreSize        :
TotalMemory      :

To list all command supported by the module

Get-Command -Module Elastico