Explorer

Once an Elasticsearch connection is open, the sidebar shows its objects in three folders, followed by the tools that work on the whole cluster.

Folders

Folder	What each entry shows
Indices	A health dot (green, yellow, red, or an outline when closed), the document count and size
Data streams	The number of backing indices. The folder appears only where the cluster has data streams
Aliases	The indices the alias points at

Hover the health dot to read the health as a word.

Double-click an index, alias or data stream (or press Enter) to open its document grid.

Object menu

Right-click an index, alias or data stream, or use the … button that shows when you point at its row, to open its menu:

Menu item	What it does
Browse documents	Opens the document grid
Open index (mappings, settings…)	Opens the index panel (indices only)
Search in console	Opens a console with a GET /<name>/_search request filled in
Delete index…	Deletes the index after showing the exact request
Delete data stream…	Deletes the data stream and all its backing indices after showing the request

The menu on the Indices folder adds Create index… (see Index operations), and every folder has Refresh.

Deletes cannot be undone

Deleting an index removes all its documents; deleting a data stream removes every backing index. The confirmation shows the DELETE request that will be sent. Read-only profiles do not offer these items.

Tools below the folders

Double-click a tool row to open its panel:

• Console: Kibana-style requests. See Console.
• SQL: SQL and ES|QL. See SQL and ES|QL.
• Cluster: health, nodes, shards, disk and tasks. See Cluster.
• Templates and pipelines: aliases, templates, ILM policies and ingest pipelines. See Aliases and templates.
• Snapshots: repositories and snapshots. See Snapshots.

The connection’s own menu has Open console.

Related

• Connecting
• Documents