ESS

This is a multi purpose command-line utility written in Go to interact with an Elasticsearch Service deployment.

It can:

• fetch details of traffic filter rulesets associated with the deployment
• collect Elasticsearch diagnostics for the deployment
• send simple GET API calls to the Elasticsearch cluster and display the result

Installation

• Download a compiled release binary according to your architecture

• Copy it somewhere in your PATH and rename it to ess (or ess.exe on Windows)

• Define an environment variable ELASTIC_ESS_KEY with the value of your Elastic Cloud API key

Usage

Once installed, you can use the utility as follows:

ess [-v] [-d|-t] <deployment_id> [Elasticsearch GET command]

• -v: Verbose mode (optional).
• -d: Diagnostics mode, collect an Elasticsearch support diagnostics for the deployment.
• -t: Traffic Filters mode, collect Traffic filters ruleset associated with the deployment.
• <deployment_id>: ID of the Elasticsearch Service deployment.
• [Elasticsearch GET command]: Command mode, run an Elasticsearch API GET query, like _cat/indices

Command mode is mutually exclusive with Diagnostics or Traffic Filters mode.

Examples

ess -t abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890

This command fetches and display ruleset details for the deployment with ID abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890.

ess abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890 _cat/indices
ess abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890 /_cat/indices

This command run the _cat/indices API command on the Elasticsearch cluster of the deployment and display the results

ess abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890 | jq '.version.number'
ess abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890 / | jq '.version.number'

This command extracts the version number from the Elasticsearch API endpoint /

License

This utility is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.