Head plugin unable to connect to Elasticsearch 5.3 - cluster health: not connected

[jovanmal (Kontranavoj)]

Hi guys,

I have Elasticsearch 5.3 installed on Centos 7 x64 server.

Also, I have started Head plugin with built-in web server, following next steps:

git clone git://github.com/mobz/elasticsearch-head.git
cd elasticsearch-head
npm install
npm run start

After this, I can login to Head webinterface, but cannot connect to the Elasticsearch server. Getting message

cluster health: not connected

when I try to connect to http://localhost:9200/.

Can somebody tell me why I cannot install head plugin using elasticsearch-plugin command. I tried it using the following command:

/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin install elasticsearch-head

but without success (getting following message):

ERROR: Unknown plugin elasticsearch-head

In older Elasticsearch versions, Head plugin had to be installed by command

/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/plugin install mobz/elasticsearch-head

but this is not working anymore.

Can somebody help me to get Head plugin working with actual Elasticsearch version?

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Site plugins are no longer supported in 5.X so you cannot install it into ES.

You may need to ask on the head GH page though, as I don't know what this could be

[Piper0804 (Denise)]

I'm having the same issue.

Also cloned the repo, installed and ran. Since plugins are not supported with version 5.x.

I have the same result, I can bring the "plugin" up in the browser but elasticsearch-head cannot connect to my es instance.

[jovanmal (Kontranavoj)]

Hi guys,

I resolved this issue by installing x-pack module which now have native support for Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash monitoring.

It looks great and fully meets all of my needs. Also, it is working without any issues.