[elasticsearch] Install and access head plugin in elasticsearch

There are many customized plugins that comes with elasticsearch. In this article we will see how to install and then how to use the head plugin with elasticsearch.


Here are few steps that we need to follow:

Step1:
To install head plugin from site use following command:

bin/plugin --install mobz/elasticsearch-head

 You will be able to install the plugin using above only when you have internet connectivity and your firewall alows you to download and install

Else you can manually download the elasticsearch-head.zip plugin from https://github.com/mobz/

Run the following command

bin/plugin --url file:///d:\elasticsearch-head.zip --install mobz/elasticsearch-head

Step 2:

Restart the elasticsearch instance and you will be able to access it as

http://localhost:9200/_plugin/head/