AWS ES Proxy

This is the solution for accessing your ES cluster if you have configured access policies for the domain. AWS ElasticSearch/Kibana Proxy with authentication to access your AWS ES cluster.

Forked/Enhanced version from commit 2c4374c by Santthosh Selvadurai. Also refer to Loading Credentials in Node.js from the Shared Credentials File.

Usage

Install the npm module

npm install -g aws-es-proxy-node

Make sure you have credential profile in ~/.aws/credentials

AWS_PROFILE=saml aws-es-proxy-node <cluster-endpoint>

Alternatively, you can set AWS credentials

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
aws-es-proxy-node <cluster-endpoint>

Where cluster-endpoint is a hostname (i.e. search-xxxxx.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com, do not include the http or https).

Examples

Example with multiple cluster-endpoints and ports:

aws-es-proxy-node\
    -e endpointe.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com\
    -e endpoint4.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com\
    -f saml\
    -p 9201

Get help instruction:

aws-es-proxy-node --help
usage: index [options] <aws-es-cluster-endpoint>
Options:
  -e, --endpoint      the es address(es) to bind                        [string]
  -b, --bind-address  the ip address to bind to  [string] [default: "127.0.0.1"]
  -p, --port          the port to bind to               [number] [default: 9200]
  -r, --region        the region of the Elasticsearch cluster           [string]
  -u, --user          the username to access the proxy     [default: "lgong200"]
  -a, --password      the password to access the proxy
  -s, --silent        remove figlet banner                      [default: false]
  -H, --health-path   URI path for health check                         [string]
  -l, --limit         request limit                         [default: "10000kb"]
  -f, --aws-profile   request aws profile                      [default: "saml"]
  --help              Show help                                        [boolean]
  --version           Show version number                              [boolean]

Credits

Forked from this Santthosh Selvadurai

Adopted from this gist. Thanks @nakedible-p