commands: ./run.sh node{1,2,3...} add stuff/indices: curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/user/kimchy' -d '{ "name" : "Shay Banon" }' curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1' -d ' { "user": "kimchy", "postDate": "2009-11-15T13:12:00", "message": "Trying out Elastic Search, so far so good?" }' curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/2' -d ' { "user": "kimchy", "postDate": "2009-11-15T14:12:12", "message": "Another tweet, will it be indexed?" }' etc. list active nodes: curl -XGET http://localhost:920/_cluster/nodes?pretty=true (same information from each ) shards overview: ls node*/data/olafs_elasticsearch/nodes/0/indices/twitter/ 3 shards, 1 replica =================== node1 started: node1: shards 0,1,2 node2 started: node1: shards 0,1,2 node2: shards 0,1,2 node3 started: node1: shards 0,2 node2: shards 1,2 node3: shards 0,1 node4 started: node1: shards 0,2 node2: shards 2 node3: shards 0,1 node4: shards 1 node5 started: node1: shards 0,2 node2: shards 2 node3: shards 1 node4: shards 1 node5: shards 0 node6 started: node1: shards 2 node2: shards 2 node3: shards 1 node4: shards 1 node5: shards 0 node6: shards 0 node7 started: node1..6: no changes node7: shards (none) node7 stopped: node1..6: no changes node4 stopped: node1: shards 1,2 node2: shards 2 node3: shards 1 node5: shards 0 node6: shards 0 node5 stopped: node1: shards 1,2 node2: shards 2 node3: shards 0,1 node6: shards 0 node1 stopped: node2: shards 1,2 node3: shards 0,1 node6: shards 0,2 node3 stopped: node2: shards 0,1,2 node6: shards 0,1,2 node2 stopped: node6: shards 0,1,2