Basic connection to REST API

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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Hi,

I want to make a basic connection with a REST API with Elasticsearch to do some query's on it.
Because the database is so big, I want to get a first insight in it.
Is there an easy way I can set this up with Elasticsearch? I already installed it.

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You can use logstash jdbc input to read data from a SQL db then index into elasticsearch.
Might help in some cases and for building POC.

Have a look at http://david.pilato.fr/blog/2015/05/09/advanced-search-for-your-legacy-application/ where I'm talking about that and other strategies to send data to elasticsearch.

HTH