Elasticsearch·Elasticsearch essentials

Indices and documents

Elasticsearch stores JSON documents in indices and makes fields searchable.

Intermediate 10 min read Lesson 1 of 150 Challenge included
What you will be able to do
  • Use PUT to index.
  • Documents have _id.
  • Mappings define fields.

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Elasticsearch stores JSON documents in indices and makes fields searchable.

  • Use PUT to index.
  • Documents have _id.
  • Mappings define fields.
index.httpHTTP
PUT /courses/_doc/css
Content-Type: application/json

{"title":"CSS Grid","minutes":18}
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