Single Alias for multiple indices

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Hi All,

Please help me to create a single alias linked to multiple indices. Required for visualization in kibana.
I am not able to create it from elastic search head plugin.
Please suggest.

Regards,
Prateek

2

The fourth example in the documentation shows how to do this. What is not working for you?

If you are looking for a user interface to do this through, it seems like Kopf has support for it, although I have not used this myself.

3

Hey ,

I am new to ELK and was trying to visualize data on dashboard. The dashboard is generated earlier and again a new index is created for different date with similar data respective to date which is not visible on dashboard previously created. I raised a conversation for the same and was suggested to post output from _cat/aliases" with single alias linked to both indices.

I just tried below & resulted error:-

http://localhost:9200/_aliases' -d '
{
"actions" : [
{ "add" : { "index" : "analysisleg2cnew", "alias" : "Index_Alias" } },
{ "add" : { "index" : "leg2mar17new", "alias" : "Index_Alias" } }
]
}'

{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"No feature for name [_aliases' -d ' { "actions" : [ { "add" : { "index" : "leg2mar17new"]"}],"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"No feature for name [_aliases' -d ' { "actions" : [ { "add" : { "index" : "leg2mar17new"]"},"status":400}

Please suggest where I am missing .
Thanks

4

Did you try it using curl just as in the example? Did you send a POST request? What is the output of _cat/indices?

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curl: (6) Could not resolve host: analysisleg2cnew
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: alias
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: Index_Alias

I am getting these in curl command line.

Yes it is a POST request ,I doubt I am missing something with curl may be.

6

Looks like you are sending invalid URLs through curl. Without seeing the actual commends you are trying there is little we can do to help.

7

Agree to you but I have not used CURL earlier & because of that I might be missing something .

Please suggest if you find there is a mistake with the command below -
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_aliases' -d ' { "actions" : [ {"add"
: { "index" : "analysisleg2cnew", "alias" : "alias1" } }, { "add" : { "index" :
"leg2mar29", "alias" : "alias1" } } ] }'

Then I would try to run it once again to get proper comment.

8

What is the output of curl http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices ?

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curl http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?
yellow open .kibana 1 1 46 6 75.7kb 75.7kb
yellow open leg2mar29 5 1 147144 0 69.3mb 69.3mb
yellow open timediff 5 1 750 0 308.8kb 308.8kb
yellow open leg2mar17new 5 1 16 0 40.4kb 40.4kb
yellow open analysisleg2c 5 1 15007 0 6.9mb 6.9mb
yellow open analysisleg2cnew 5 1 15007 0 7mb 7mb
yellow open timediff_batchadded 5 1 1500 0 524.2kb 524.2kb

10

As far as I can see this looks OK. What is the response when running it?

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{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"parse_exception","reason":"Failed to derive xco
ntent"}],"type":"parse_exception","reason":"Failed to derive xcontent"},"status"
:400}curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched brace in column 1
.
.
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: alias1
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 1

12

I created the two indices empty locally and ran the command without any problems. Which version of Elasticsearch are you using? Which operating system are you on?

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Elasticsearch- 2.1.0
OS -Windows

14

Then it might very well be something related to curl on Windows. I will unfortunately not be able to help you there as I do not have any Windows box available.

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Ok thanks for help & patience but in that case do I have any option to resolve below one -