Oh Elasticsearch!

Posted by sohail.tech on January 26, 2016

Working on fixing an issue with an ELK stack today and I realized that the folks at Elastic have some pretty interesting names for the shards in the database.

So far I’ve seen:

  • Peregrine
  • Obliterator
  • Amiko Kobayashi
  • Cassie Lang
  • Vakume
  • Mist Mistress
  • Arides
  • Roughhouse
  • Omega the Unknown
  • Martinex

There were a few more; Elasticsearch generates a new shard name every time the service is restarted. I’m almost tempted to restart the service a few more times, just to see what it’ll come up with.

Also, it’d be great if the commands to check the integrity of an index were, you know, simpler.