Wiki source code of Killing the ELK Stack

Last modified by Normann P. Nielsen on 2025/12/12 15:11

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Normann P. Nielsen 1.1 1 Well, I tried to load a 4 GB json file from [[http://download.aws.dk/]] into ES as in:
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4 {{code}}
5 root@elkserver1:~# curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/adresses/address' -d @adresser.json
6 Killed
7 {{/code}}
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9 After the "killed", the ES stack went bad for some time - and finally came back into green state; - in that Time, Kibana just showed "RED" (sad)
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11 Well, then I tried to created an index pattern over "adresses", and the index-pattern became present in Kibana, but it did not work at all.
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15 Tried to delete the Index, but ES told me there was no index.. And I could not click on the index pattern in Kibana.
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17 Finally I got it deleted with:
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20 {{code}}
21 root@elkserver1:~# curl -XDELETE "http://localhost:9200/.kibana/index-pattern/adresses"
22 {"found":true,"_index":".kibana","_type":"index-pattern","_id":"adresses","_version":2,"result":"deleted","_shards":{"to...
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24 root@elkserver1:~# service kibana stop
25 root@elkserver1:~# service kibana start
26 {{/code}}
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30 And the mapping was gone....