Elasticsearch Sender

Why?

Sending bulk data to Elasticsearch is common, but is not easy to do with the official ES client. In particular, creating new indexes for time-based data is not trivial. In ES, it is very inefficient to delete records by a query, and it is recommended in the official docs that you delete by index instead. This of course requires you to keep creating and writing data to the correct index. This library will handle that for you.

Usage

const esSend = require('elasticsearch-sender').buildSender({
    host: 'myElasticsearchHost.com',
    indexName: 'my-index',
    indexType: 'monthly',
    indexShape: {
        name: { type: 'keyword', index: true },
        numProcessed: { type: 'integer' },
        created: { type: 'date', index: true}
    },
    recordType: 'myRecordType'
});
 
...
 
esSend([{
    name: 'foo service',
    numProcessed: 42,
    created: new Date().toISOString()
}, {
    name: 'bar service',
    numProcessed: 2,
    created: new Date().toISOString() 
}])
.then(() => console.log('Items sent to Elasticsearch'));

buildSender(opts)

Builds a sender function that will automatically handle bulk processing and indexing

Opts

• host Required. The Elasticsearch hostname
• indexName Required. Will be used when creating an index. Must be all lowercase.
• indexShape Required. An object describing indexes for the records being sent to ES. This is used for the properties field when creating the index in ES.
• indexType Required. Must be one of 'monthly', 'daily', or 'single'. Controls the granularity of indexes. For instance, if 'daily', then a record created on Jan 25 2018 will be sent to the index named '${indexPrefix}-2018-01-25'. (This index will be automatically created as needed.) 'monthly' will only have the year and month in the index name. 'single' means only a single index called ${indexPrefix} will be ever be created and used.
• recordType Required. The _type value for each record in Elasticsearch.
• esLogLevel Optional. The log level for the Elasticsearch client. Defaults to 'info'

This returns a function that takes in an array of items and sends them all to Elasticsearch.

Disclaimer

This library is designed for my personal common use cases, namely, sending medium amounts of small pieces of data to a hosted ES server, allowing for me to run metrics queries easily. It does not try to get into more advanced use cases.