# Managing Elastic Search - Is Curl the only way? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 23, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-elastic-search-is-curl-the-only-way/121299 "2018-02-23T22:43:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Mike2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mike2)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-elastic-search-is-curl-the-only-way/121299/1 "2018-02-23T22:43:11Z")
Hi - I'm a beginner using ELK, and as a beginner, I imported some logs that ended up having numeric fields imported as text. So, I fixed the log stash process to convert those correctly, and now my indices are conflicted. I've found a number of articles on re-indexing - they all seem to indicate that one uses curl commands to do things like re-indexing, mappings, etc. That seems pretty low level - my first instinct would be to make some custom scripts that encapsulate those curl commands. Is that the standard practice for management? ---
**Author:** ![loren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/loren/32/44942_2.png) [@loren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/loren)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-elastic-search-is-curl-the-only-way/121299/2 "2018-02-23T23:08:04Z")
Install a free [X-Pack Basic license](https://register.elastic.co) and use Console in Kibana. ---
**Author:** ![rcowart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rcowart/32/88091_2.png) [@rcowart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rcowart)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-elastic-search-is-curl-the-only-way/121299/3 "2018-02-24T11:22:29Z")
I highly recommend [Insomnia](https://insomnia.rest/). It is a REST client that let's you setup different workspaces (e.g. for different applications) and environments (for multiple instances of those applications). ![05](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/5/e523658f9890a5fcff63dc88b70ecbcea3a40238.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Mike2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Mike2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mike2)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-elastic-search-is-curl-the-only-way/121299/4 "2018-02-24T11:35:25Z")
Very helpful - thanks ! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-elastic-search-is-curl-the-only-way/121299/5 "2018-03-24T11:35:25Z")
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