Cross cluster index management

[amitavmohanty01 (Amitav Mohanty)]

After cross-cluster settings are applied, is it possible to view/edit templates of indices on remote cluster and view/edit cluster level settings of remote cluster in Kibana ?

[Marius_Dragomir]

I'm not sure you can do it in the index management UI, but with the Dev Tools console you should be able to query them

[Hari_Prasad]

I was unable to do it from dev console.

GET _cluster/settings

{
  "persistent" : {
    "cluster" : {
      "remote" : {
        "cluster_one" : {
          "skip_unavailable" : "true",
          "seeds" : [
            "elkhost1:9300",
            "elkhost2:9300"
          ]
       }
     }
   }
 }

And when I do the following query

GET cluster_one:log-2019.11.09/_mapping

it fails with the following error

{
  "error" : {
    "root_cause" : [
      {
        "type" : "index_not_found_exception",
        "reason" : "no such index",
        "index_uuid" : "_na_",
        "resource.type" : "index_or_alias",
        "resource.id" : "cluster_one:log-2019.11.09",
        "index" : "cluster_one:log-2019.11.09"
      }
    ],
    "type" : "index_not_found_exception",
    "reason" : "no such index",
    "index_uuid" : "_na_",
    "resource.type" : "index_or_alias",
    "resource.id" : "cluster_one:log-2019.11.09",
    "index" : "cluster_one:log-2019.11.09"
  },
  "status" : 404
}

But I am able to search for the same index.

@Marius_Dragomir: can you please tell me if I am missing something.

Thank you

[Marius_Dragomir]

I've investigated this more and it looks like the only way to manage remote indices (from cross cluster search) is to point your kibana to that remote cluster.

[amitavmohanty01 (Amitav Mohanty)]

@Marius_Dragomir Do you think this can be added as a feature request?

[Marius_Dragomir]

sure. Can you add it in here? https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues
it would have more weight since you can explain the use case better than me.
I can help you by setting the right labels after you add it.