README.md

Delete AWS ES Incidents (indexes)

A small application that deletes indexes in AWS Elasticsearch service.

The purpose of this application to be a workaround of using curator with AWS Elasticsearch service, at the moment of writing there is an issue deleting indexes using curator

Getting Started

Application is packed as a single binary, just download and run.

Prerequisites

Nothing.

Usage

The help section explains everything:

Delete ELK incidents on AWS ES 5.1

Usage:
  delete-aws-es-incidents [flags]
  delete-aws-es-incidents [command]

Available Commands:
  help        Help about any command
  version     Display version

Flags:
  -e, --es-url string            Elasticsearch URL, eg. https://path-to-es.aws.com/
  -h, --help                     help for delete-aws-es-incidents
  -d, --older-than-in-days int   delete incidents older then in days (default 14)
  -p, --prefixes string          comma separated list of prefixes for indexs, index date must be in format YYYY.MM.DD. eg. 'logstash-2017.09.28'. default is 'logstash-' (default "logstash-")

Use "delete-aws-es-incidents [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Deployment

Easiest way to deploy is via the docker image

Example usage deploying the docker image:

docker run -d joshdvir/delete-aws-es-incidents -e https://path-to-es-server/ -d 30

Or you can always download a release compatible to your OS and run the application.

Built With

• Golang
• Cobra - CLI framework for Go.
• Elasticsearch Go Client
• Cron - A cron library for Go

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• Josh Dvir

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details