ElasticSearch Debug & Indexing?

[pbonnell]

Hey there,
I've deployed a solid stack on a local lab network and I'm looking for some guidance around debugging my ES connection in-app as well as building my ES indexes.

I've got a fully populated DB through Prism management and manual imports, and good pipes from search to api, but search comes up blank.
I'm assuming empty ES but what's the best route to functional indexing?

I'm working through a dev-shunt to get to admin to look there, but thought I'd drop this here to see if I'm missing something simple!