Elasticsearch connection

To access your data in Elasticsearch, create a connection asset for it.

Elasticsearch is a distributed, open source search and analytics engine. Use the Elasticsearch connection to access JSON documents in Elasticsearch indexes.

Supported versions

Elasticsearch version 8.15.

Note:

Elasticsearch version 8.15.0 is not supported. If you are on version 8.15.0, upgrade to version 8.15.2. For more information, see Elasticsearch release notes.

Create a connection to Elasticsearch

To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:

  • URL: the URL to access Elasticsearch
  • SSL certificate (if required by the database server)

For credentials, choose one of the following methods:

  • Username and password
    (Optional) Anonymous access
  • API key
    (Optional) Anonymous access

For Credentials and Certificates, you can use secrets if a vault is configured for the platform and the service supports vaults. For information, see Using secrets from vaults in connections.

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance

This connection is FIPS-compliant and can be used on a FIPS-enabled cluster.

Elasticsearch setup

Set up Elasticsearch

Restrictions

  • For Elasticsearch versions earlier than version 7, read is limited to 10,000 rows.
  • For Data Refinery, the only supported action on the target file is to append all the rows of the Data Refinery flow output to the existing data set.

Running SQL statements

To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the Elasticsearch Guide for SQL for the correct syntax.

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