NAME

       curator - Elasticsearch time-series index manager

SYNOPSIS

       curator_cli  [-h]  [-v]  [--host  HOST]  [--url_prefix URL_PREFIX] [--port PORT] [--use_ssl] [--http_auth
       AUTH]  [--timeout  TIMEOUT]  [--master-only]  [--dry-run]  [--loglevel  LOG_LEVEL]  [--logfile  LOG_FILE]
       [--logformat LOGFORMAT] COMMAND [COMMAND_OPTS] ARGUMENTS

DESCRIPTION

       curator  helps  manage  Elasticsearch  time-series  indices.  It  provides  an  easy way to perform index
       administration tasks, such as managing aliases,  optimizing  indices,  changing  the  replica  count  and
       modifying index allocation using routing tags.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              show program usage and exit

       -v, --version
              show program's version number and exit

       --host HOST
              Elasticsearch host. Default: localhost

       --url_prefix URL_PREFIX
              Elasticsearch HTTP url prefix. Default: none

       --port PORT
              Elasticsearch port. Default: 9200

       --use_ssl
              Connect to Elasticsearch through SSL. Default: false

       --certificate
              Path to certificate to use for SSL validation.

       --client-cert
              Path to file containing SSL certificate for client auth.

       --ssl-no-validate
              Do not validate SSL certificate

       --http_auth AUTH
              Use Basic Authentication ex: user:pass Default: None

       --timeout TIMEOUT
              Connection timeout in seconds.

       --master-only
              Verify that the node is the elected master before continuing

       --dry-run
              If true, does not perform any changes to the Elasticsearch indices.

       --loglevel LOG_LEVEL
              Log level

       --logfile LOG_FILE
              log file

       --logformat LOGFORMAT
              Log output format [default|logstash]. Default: default

COMMANDS

       Each  of the following commands accepts a number of options and positional arguments. Run curator COMMAND
       --help for command-specific help. Available commands are:

       allocation
              Apply required index routing allocation rule

       close  Close indices

       delete_indices
              Delete indices

       delete_snapshots
              Delete snapshots

       forcemerge
              forceMerge index/shard segments

       open   Open indices

       replicas
              Change replica count of indices

       show_indices
              Show indices

       show_snapshots
              Show snapshots

       snapshot
              Take snapshots of indices

EXIT CODES

       Exit codes will indicate success or failure.

       0      Success

       1      Failure

       -1     An exception was raised that does not result in an exit code of 1

SEE ALSO

       es_repo_mgr(1), curator(1)

       Additional   documentation   for   curator_cli   can   be   found    at    the    project's    wiki    at
       https://github.com/elasticsearch/curator/wiki and (on Debian systems) under /usr/share/doc/elasticsearch-
       curator/reference.txt.gz.

AUTHOR

       curator  was originally written by Aaron Mildenstein <aaron@mildensteins.com>. It is currently maintained
       by Elasticsearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org/>.

       This manual page was written by Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos@debian.org> for the Debian  project  (but
       may be used by others).

LICENSE

       This  software  is  released  under  the  Apache  License, Version 2.0. See /usr/share/doc/elasticsearch-
       curator/copyright for more details.

       Copyright 2011-2016 Elasticsearch and contributors.

curator 4.2                                       December 2016                                       CURATOR(1)