NAME

       curator - Elasticsearch time-series index manager

SYNOPSIS

       curator  [-h]  [-v]  [--host HOST] [--url_prefix URL_PREFIX] [--port PORT] [--ssl] [--auth
       AUTH] [--timeout TIMEOUT] [--master-only]  [-n]  [-D]  [--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

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

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

       --timeout TIMEOUT
              Connection timeout in seconds. Default: 30

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

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

       -D, --debug
              Debug mode

       --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:

       alias  Aliasing operations

       allocation
              Apply required index routing allocation rule

       bloom  Disable bloom filter cache for indices

       close  Close indices

       delete Delete indices

       optimize
              Optimize indices

       replicas
              Change replica count of indices

       show   Show indices or snapshots

       snapshot
              Take snapshots of indices (Backup)

SEE ALSO

       es_repo_mgr(1)

       Additional  documentation  for  curator  can  be  found   at   the   project's   wiki   at
       https://github.com/elasticsearch/curator/wiki.

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 2011-2015 Elasticsearch and contributors.