Technical Note: ZoneFox 3 - Installing Elasticsearch plugins

Installation and Administration

A number of plugins have been created for Elasticsearch, which allow system administrators to use a web front end to browse and interact with their Elasticsearch cluster.  For example:

To check what plugins have already been installed in your system, login to the Linux box where Elasticsearch is installed and change to the installation directory, e.g:

cd /usr/share/elasticsearch

Run the command:

bin/plugin --list

To install the head plugin, run the commands:

sudo -s

bin/plugin --install mobz/elasticsearch-head

This tool can be accessed in a browser via a URL like:  http://<db_server_address>:9200/_plugin/head

Other tools include kopf, HQ and bigdesk.  Note that these are all non-core and community created plugins.