Elasticsearch remote access through SSH

Question

About Elasticsearch HTTP API, I wonder if I want to remote access a cluster on SSH server, what should I include in my http rest command:

    curl -XGET ' http://localhost:9200/ index /_mapping/ type ' 

I have tried something like below but got failed:

    curl -XGET -u cloud-user: --key ~/.ssh/id_rsa --pubkey ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub  'xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/index/_mapping/type'

Is there anyone knows the correct command or alternative solution?

Answer 1

If you are on *NIX environment it is easy, just tunnel over ssh

ssh -Nf -L 9200:localhost:9200 [email protected]

Later you fetch the remote by localhost, as tunneled above

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_search'