Elasticsearch query on a specific index

Question

I have already searching this since 2 days now. I use the sense chrome plugin to be able to test my queries but I don't find how to specify on which index he is supposed to search. So my queries search on all the indexes and it isn't easy to use.

I have try the following syntaxes:

GET _search {     "query": {         "term": {            "_index": {               "value": "dev_events2"            }         }     }  }  GET _search {     "_index": "dev_events2",     "query": {         "match_all" : {  }     }  }  GET _search {     "index": "dev_events2",     "query": {         "match_all" : {  }     }  } 

Regards,

Benjamin V.

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Edit I finally have found the answer: just add the index name into the url for the get: localhost:9201/myIndexName

Answer 1

Heres curl example what works, and allows you to search multiple indexes:

curl 'http://localhost:9200/myindex1,myindex2/_search?q=*' 

For single specific index:

curl 'http://localhost:9200/myindex1/_search?q=*' 

To find find index names:

curl 'localhost:9200/_cat/indices' 

And if you want to search all indexes:

curl 'localhost:9200/_search?pretty' 

Answer 2

You can also add the index/type to the GET/PUT/DELETE ... query:

GET index/type/_search {    "query": {         "bool": {             "must": [                 {                     "term": {                         ...                     }                 }             ]         }     } }