Install marvel plugin for Elasticsearch

Question

I have downloaded the version 1.1.0 of elasticsearch, and it's running well. I would like to install the marvel plugin, so I run the following command from the elasticsearch home directory (exactly like told in the official tutorial at http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/marvel/current/#_simple_install):

bin\plugin -i elasticsearch/marvel/latest 

But I get the following error:

-> Installing elasticsearch/marvel/latest... Trying http://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/marvel/marvel-latest.zip. .. Trying http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=elasticsearch/marvel/lates t/marvel-latest.zip... Trying https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/repositories/releases/content/elas ticsearch/marvel/latest/marvel-latest.zip... Trying https://github.com/elasticsearch/marvel/archive/vlatest.zip... Trying https://github.com/elasticsearch/marvel/archive/master.zip... Failed to install elasticsearch/marvel/latest, reason: failed to download out of  all possible locations..., use -verbose to get detailed information 

And this is what I get when I use -verbose:

-> Installing elasticsearch/marvel/latest... Trying http://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/marvel/marvel-latest.zip. .. Failed: UnknownHostException[download.elasticsearch.org] Trying http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=elasticsearch/marvel/lates t/marvel-latest.zip... Failed: UnknownHostException[search.maven.org] Trying https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/repositories/releases/content/elas ticsearch/marvel/latest/marvel-latest.zip... Failed: UnknownHostException[oss.sonatype.org] Trying https://github.com/elasticsearch/marvel/archive/vlatest.zip... Failed: UnknownHostException[github.com] Trying https://github.com/elasticsearch/marvel/archive/master.zip... Failed: UnknownHostException[github.com] Failed to install elasticsearch/marvel/latest, reason: failed to download out of  all possible locations..., use -verbose to get detailed information 

Answer 1

You could try to go to the address http://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/marvel/marvel-latest.zip with your web browser. If you can download the marvel-latest.zip that way then you can manually create plugins directory under elasticsearch directory and unzip the marvel-latest.zip file in the plugins directory, i.e. the zip contents should go to plugins\marvel directory under ElasticSearch home directory.

Be sure to rename the unzipped directory from marvel-latest to marvel, so that address

http://any-server-in-cluster:9200/_plugin/marvel/ 

suggested in the tutorial works.

I had somewhat similar problem as you with the ElasticSearch version 1.1.1. The

bin\plugin -i elasticsearch/marvel/latest 

command gave FileNotFound errors though with the web browser I was able to download the plugin and get it work.

Answer 2

This works for Elasticsearch 2.0+ and Kibana 4.2+ according to https://www.elastic.co/downloads/marvel

Step 1: Install Marvel into Elasticsearch:

/path/to/elasticsearch/bin/./plugin install license

/path/to/elasticsearch/bin/./plugin install marvel-agent

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Step 2: Install Marvel into Kibana

/path/to/kibana/bin/./kibana plugin --install elasticsearch/marvel/latest

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Step 3: Start Elasticsearch and Kibana

/path/to/elasticsearch/bin/./elasticsearch

/path/to/kibana/bin/./kibana

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Step 4: Navigate to http://localhost:5601/app/marvel

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Step 5: For installing Sense into Kibana:

/path/to/kibana/bin/./kibana plugin --install elastic/sense