Bigdesk

Live charts and statistics for Elasticsearch 2.x/5.x/7.x/8.x+ cluster.

2022-03-21

• Test on Elasticsearch 8.0.0

2020-03-25

• Test on Elasticsearch 7.6.1

• Running as a Chrome extension

  download crx/es-bigdesk.crx , check extentions develop mode on , drag to webbrowser

  if cannot installed , enable installing local CRX files , or unzip es-bigdesk.crx then install from local folder

  Click the extension icon in the toolbar of your web browser.

  Note that you don¡¯t need to enable CORS with this method.

  Test on Chrome 75.x and Opera 67

• Run bigdesk standalone

  site plugins are not supported. Run bigdesk standalone ,see below

2016-10-30

• How to use for ES5.x

  site plugins are not supported. Run bigdesk standalone

  modify elasticsearch.yml,enable CORS

  http.cors.enabled: true

  http.cors.allow-origin: "*"

  Check Elasticsearch documentation on this parameter: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-http.html#modules-http

  then open index.html in browser

  or run on another web server

2016-03-23

• Modify and relayout some metrics and charts

2016-03-21

• Support for Elasticsearch 2.x

Installation Instructions

navigate to <ES_HOME> and execute the following command on command line

Online Install Elasticsearch master

$ ./bin/plugin install hlstudio/bigdesk

Online Install a special/previous version eg: v2.2.a

$ ./bin/plugin install hlstudio/bigdesk/v2.2.a

Offline Install, download release zip file or master zip file, copy to a directory eg:/tmp

$ ./bin/plugin install file:/tmp/bigdesk-master.zip

How to use Bigdesk

Open your web browser to access http://127.0.0.1:9200/_plugin/bigdesk by default.

Now you should see cluster name and list of its nodes. You can switch between nodes in the cluster, new nodes are added and old nodes are removed automatically on the fly.

You can change the Bigdesk refresh interval and amount of data that is displayed by charts.

Screenshots

Supported Web Browsers

Bigdesk should work in all modern web browsers as long as they support SVG. It has been tested in Safari, Firefox and Chrome.

Credits

Lukas Vlcek and contributors.

Modified by hlstudio.