Useful Elastic command

Remove Mac gatekeeper signature from .tar download

xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine <elastic-path>

Extract kibana and ES .tar archives

tar -xvf <path>

Reset elastic user password

bin/elasticsearch-reset-password -u elastic

Generate new Kibana token

bin/elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token --scope kibana

Generate new Node token

This is useful for when spinning up new nodes in our cluster.

 bin/elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token --scope node

Know why shards are unassigned

GET /_cluster/allocation/explain

Check shard health

GET /_cat/shards?v&index=*,-.*,-.internal.*,-.*default*

You will see doc distribution across shards in the response: