Cross-cluster search
editCross-cluster search
editThe cross-cluster search feature allows any node to act as a federated client across multiple clusters. In contrast to the tribe node feature, a cross-cluster search node won’t join the remote cluster, instead it connects to a remote cluster in a light fashion in order to execute federated search requests.
Using cross-cluster search
editCross-cluster search requires configuring remote clusters.
PUT _cluster/settings { "persistent": { "cluster": { "remote": { "cluster_one": { "seeds": [ "127.0.0.1:9300" ] }, "cluster_two": { "seeds": [ "127.0.0.1:9301" ] }, "cluster_three": { "seeds": [ "127.0.0.1:9302" ] } } } } }
To search the twitter
index on remote cluster cluster_one
the index name
must be prefixed with the cluster alias separated by a :
character:
GET /cluster_one:twitter/_search { "query": { "match": { "user": "kimchy" } } }
{ "took": 150, "timed_out": false, "_shards": { "total": 1, "successful": 1, "failed": 0, "skipped": 0 }, "_clusters": { "total": 1, "successful": 1, "skipped": 0 }, "hits": { "total": 1, "max_score": 1, "hits": [ { "_index": "cluster_one:twitter", "_type": "_doc", "_id": "0", "_score": 1, "_source": { "user": "kimchy", "date": "2009-11-15T14:12:12", "message": "trying out Elasticsearch", "likes": 0 } } ] } }
In contrast to the tribe
feature cross cluster search can also search indices with the same name on different
clusters:
GET /cluster_one:twitter,twitter/_search { "query": { "match": { "user": "kimchy" } } }
Search results are disambiguated the same way as the indices are disambiguated in the request. Even if index names are identical these indices will be treated as different indices when results are merged. All results retrieved from a remote index will be prefixed with their remote cluster name:
{ "took": 150, "timed_out": false, "_shards": { "total": 2, "successful": 2, "failed": 0, "skipped": 0 }, "_clusters": { "total": 2, "successful": 2, "skipped": 0 }, "hits": { "total": 2, "max_score": 1, "hits": [ { "_index": "cluster_one:twitter", "_type": "_doc", "_id": "0", "_score": 1, "_source": { "user": "kimchy", "date": "2009-11-15T14:12:12", "message": "trying out Elasticsearch", "likes": 0 } }, { "_index": "twitter", "_type": "_doc", "_id": "0", "_score": 2, "_source": { "user": "kimchy", "date": "2009-11-15T14:12:12", "message": "trying out Elasticsearch", "likes": 0 } } ] } }
Skipping disconnected clusters
editBy default all remote clusters that are searched via cross-cluster search need to be available when
the search request is executed, otherwise the whole request fails and no search results are returned
despite some of the clusters are available. Remote clusters can be made optional through the
boolean skip_unavailable
setting, set to false
by default.
GET /cluster_one:twitter,cluster_two:twitter,twitter/_search { "query": { "match": { "user": "kimchy" } } }
{ "took": 150, "timed_out": false, "_shards": { "total": 2, "successful": 2, "failed": 0, "skipped": 0 }, "_clusters": { "total": 3, "successful": 2, "skipped": 1 }, "hits": { "total": 2, "max_score": 1, "hits": [ { "_index": "cluster_one:twitter", "_type": "_doc", "_id": "0", "_score": 1, "_source": { "user": "kimchy", "date": "2009-11-15T14:12:12", "message": "trying out Elasticsearch", "likes": 0 } }, { "_index": "twitter", "_type": "_doc", "_id": "0", "_score": 2, "_source": { "user": "kimchy", "date": "2009-11-15T14:12:12", "message": "trying out Elasticsearch", "likes": 0 } } ] } }