D.3. Head: advanced query building

The Head plugin was one of the first on the scene. Even though it’s been around the longest and its user interface hasn’t changed much, it’s still in active development, adding new features and supporting newer versions of Elasticsearch.

Head has an easy-to-use interface (shown in figure D.5) and features a powerful query-builder tool that allows you to create complex queries without the need for cURL or manually crafting them in a commandline REST tool.

Figure D.5. Website: https://github.com/mobz/elasticsearch-head License: Apache License v2.0

Head can be run in two ways:

As a server-side installed plugin

Downloaded and installed locally: https://github.com/mobz/elasticsearch-head