Install
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.x/apt-repository.html
wget -qO - https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add - echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.elastic.co/curator/5/debian stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/curator.list sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elasticsearch-curator # sudo apt install -y elasticsearch-curator # pip install elasticsearch-curator
Show usage
curl elasticsearch.example.com:9200/_cat/indices
curator.yml
--- client: hosts: - elasticsearch.example.com port: 9200 url_prefix: use_ssl: False certificate: client_cert: client_key: ssl_no_validate: False http_auth: timeout: 30 master_only: False logging: loglevel: INFO logfile: logformat: default blacklist: ['elasticsearch', 'urllib3']
delete_indices.yml
--- actions: 1: action: delete_indices description: >- Delete indices older than 14 days options: ignore_empty_list: True timeout_override: continue_if_exception: False disable_action: False filters: # - filtertype: pattern # kind: prefix # value: logstash- # #value: flog- # exclude: # - filtertype: pattern # kind: prefix # value: flog- # exclude: - filtertype: age source: name direction: older timestring: '%Y.%m.%d' unit: days unit_count: 7 exclude:
Delete old data
curator --config ./curator.yml ./delete_indices.yml #--dry-run
Links
http://www.madhur.co.in/blog/2017/04/09/usingcuratordeleteelasticindex.html
https://cezarypiatek.github.io/post/scheduled-elasticsearch-cleanup/