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.

curator 2.1.2                                     February 2015                                       CURATOR(1)