Add more options to index management -> indices screen

[adityaj1107]

Issue by ict-one-nl
Sunday Dec 27, 2020 at 12:14 GMT
Originally opened as opendistro-for-elasticsearch/index-management#365

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Deleting an index, updating it's settings, etc. would be nice to have here like Kibana from ElasticSearch itself.

Describe the solution you'd like
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Describe alternatives you've considered
REST API is fine but a graphical interface would be nice as well.

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[dswitzer]

The ability to do some simple management options like "Delete" is sorely missing from this plugin.

[thalurur]

@dswitzer you can create a policy with a delete action and attach it any index to automate delete of indices based on conditions - https://docs-beta.opensearch.org/docs/im/ism/policies/#delete

[dswitzer]

@thalurur Thanks for the suggestion, but it's not really want I'm wanting. We've got a multi tenant application and occasionally we may need to manually perform actions (e.g. deleting an index) for an inactive tenant. This is not something we can trigger based on policies alone. The X Pack version of the Index Management has support for the types of actions we need. I'd just love to see this rolled into the Open Distro plugin to avoid having to build the functionality manually.

[thalurur]

Apologies, but I am trying to understand a little better about what the ask is - I am assuming by manual action one would trigger DELETE action and it deletes the index, but then its same as DELETE API provided in the core library right? is there a difference between the two that I am not seeing?

[ZeevGerstner]

I would love this feature too, it's really missing and make it hard to migrate from es to open distro.
@dswitzer is referring to this section in es:

[dswitzer]

Correct. The Lifecycle buttons have actions you can take on an index. You can certainly do this via the API, but having a UI to do some simple management cleanup is convenient, especially when you might have tasks that you want to distribute to users who might not have access to the API or you don’t want them too.

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On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 6:48 AM zeevgg ***@***.***> wrote: I would love this feature too, it's really missing and make it hard to migrate from es to open distro. @dswitzer <https://github.com/dswitzer> is referring to this section in es: [image: Screenshot 2021-06-23 134631] <https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/42205609/123084100-6fd66000-d429-11eb-98db-50422f2eb972.png> — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <opensearch-project/index-management-dashboards-plugin#154>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAG33EOFF6C2CV5YF6VLGF3TUG3WXANCNFSM457WUGBQ> .

[xluo-aws]

We are working on a new feature to add those index operations(delete, create, update, reindex, etc) to ISM plugin page

[xluo-aws]

In release 2.5 and 2.6, we have released features to index management plugin UI to allow user create index, update index setting, add index mapping, open/close/delete/split/shrink/reindex. create/update alias/templates/data stream, etc. Here is a blog post https://opensearch.org/blog/admin-panels-for-index-operations/

[xluo-aws]

We plan to add index flush, refresh and clear cache in 2.8. If there is any other common index operations you want us to add on the UI, please leave a comment here.