esFrontLine

Limit restful requests to backend ElasticSearch cluster: Queries only.

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• An ElasticSearch cluster to forward queries to

Install

I will assume you have Python installed (if not, here are Windows7 instructions)

pip install esFrontLine

Setup

You must write your own setting.json file with the following properties set:

• elasticsearch - (Array of) ElasticSearch nodes

• elasticsearch.host - URL of the ElasticSearch node that will accept query requests

• elasticsearch.port - port for ES (default = 9200)

• flask - flask.run() parameters (default port = 5000)

• debug - turn on debugging

Here is an example of my settings.json file

{
    "elasticsearch":[{
        "host":"http://elasticsearch4.metrics.scl3.mozilla.com",
        "port":9200
    },{
        "host":"http://elasticsearch5.metrics.scl3.mozilla.com",
        "port":9200
    },{
        "host":"http://elasticsearch7.metrics.scl3.mozilla.com",
        "port":9200
    },{
        "host":"http://elasticsearch8.metrics.scl3.mozilla.com",
        "port":9200
    }],
    "flask":{
        "host":"0.0.0.0",
        "port":9292,
        "debug":false,
        "threaded":true,
        "processes":1
    },
    "debug":{
        "log":[{
            "filename": "./results/logs/app.log",
            "maxBytes": 10000000,
            "backupCount": 200,
            "encoding": "utf8"
        },{
            "stream":"sys.stdout"
        }]
    }

}

Execution

python app.py --settings-file <path_to_file_with_JSON_settings>