How to create index and type in elastic search?

Question

I have installed elasticsearch version 2.3.2. I have to add index and type to that elasticsearch. Before I used sense plugin to achieve this. But the addon was removed from webstore. Please give suggestion.

Answer 1

You can use a Rest client like postman to do this. You can get the postman as a chrome extension.

The other way is to do an SSH into one of the nodes in your cluster and run the POST command using CURL.

`curl -X POST 'localhost:9200/bookindex/books' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
 {
    "bookId" : "A00-3",
    "author" : "Sankaran",
    "publisher" : "Mcgrahill",
    "name" : "how to get a job"
 }'

I will automatically create an index named 'bookindex' with type 'books' and index the data. If index and type already exist it will add the entry to the index.

Answer 2

Sense plugin is now a Kibana app. Please refer official reference for installation.

The answer of your question is, you can create index and type in Elasticsearch by running below curl command

curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/IndexName/TypeName"