How to insert data into elasticsearch

Question

I am new to Elasticearch  and I have been trying for 2 days to insert some data into Elasticearch  I found on Google that there are many pages to help to create an index  I am not clear about  index   does it mean  insert  in other terms   Then many places give some curl command  and I really don t know where to execute these code lines to insert data  Example   curl -XPOST  http    localhost  9200 indexname typename optionalUniqueId  -d     field     value       I am using Window 7 and I have installed Java and run elasticsearch successfully  Could anybody show me more details about how to insert data into Elasticearch  Many thanks

User · Answer

If you are using KIBANA with elasticsearch then you can use below RESt request to create and put in the index.

CREATING INDEX:

http://localhost:9200/company
PUT company
{
  "settings": {
    "index": {
      "number_of_shards": 1,
      "number_of_replicas": 1
    },
    "analysis": {
      "analyzer": {
        "analyzer-name": {
          "type": "custom",
          "tokenizer": "keyword",
          "filter": "lowercase"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "mappings": {
    "employee": {
      "properties": {
        "age": {
          "type": "long"
        },
        "experience": {
          "type": "long"
        },
        "name": {
          "type": "text",
          "analyzer": "analyzer-name"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

CREATING DOCUMENT:

POST http://localhost:9200/company/employee/2/_create
{
"name": "Hemani",
"age" : 23,
"experienceInYears" : 2
}

User · Answer

To avoid using curl or Chrome plugins you can just use the the built in windows Powershell  From the Powershell command window run  Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing  http   127 0 0 1 9200 sampleindex sampleType   - Method POST -ContentType  application json  -Body     user     Test    post date     2017 11 13 11 07 00    message     trying out Elasticsearch       Note the Index name MUST be in lowercase

User · Answer

Simple fundamentals  Elastic community has exposed indexing  searching  deleting operation as rest web service   You can interact elastic using curl or sense chrome plugin  or any rest client like postman   If you are just testing few commands  I would recommend can use of sense chrome plugin which has simple UI and pretty mature plugin now

User · Answer

Let me explain clearly   If you are familiar With rdbms   Index is database   And index type is table    It mean index is collection of index types    like collection of tables as database  DB     in NOSQL    Index is database and index type is collections  Group of collection as database     To execute those queries    U need to install CURL for Windows    Curl is nothing but a command line rest tool   If you want a graphical tool   Try  Sense plugin for chrome      Hope it helps

User · Answer

You have to install the curl binary in your PC first  You can download it from here   After that unzip it into a folder  Lets say C  curl  In that folder you ll find curl exe file with several  dll files   Now open a command prompt by typing cmd from the start menu  And type cd c  curl on there and it will take you to the curl folder  Now execute the curl command that you have   One thing  windows doesn t support single quote around around the fields  So you have to use double quotes  For example I have converted your curl command like appropriate one   curl -H  Content-Type  application json  -XPOST  http   localhost 9200 indexname typename optionalUniqueId  -d      field       value

User · Answer

I started off using curl  but since have migrated to use kibana  Here is some more information on the ELK stack from elastic co  E elastic search  K kibana   https   www elastic co elk-stack  With kibana your POST requests are a bit more simple   POST   lt INDEX NAME gt   lt TYPE NAME gt         field    value        id   1       account id   213       name    kimchy

User · Answer

To test and try curl requests from Windows  you can make use of Postman client Chrome extension  It is very simple to use and quite powerful   Or as suggested you can install the cURL util   A sample curl request is as follows   curl -X POST -H  Content-Type  application json  -H  Cache-Control  no-cache  -d     user     Arun Thundyill Saseendran    post date     2009-03-23T12 30 00    message     trying out Elasticsearch      http   10 103 102 56 9200 sampleindex sampletype     I am also getting started with and exploring ES in vast  So please let me know if you have any other doubts   EDIT  Updated the index name and type name to be fully lowercase to avoid errors and follow convention

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