Useful Kibana Scripts

This is a collection of useful Kibana scripts which I often refer back to.

These are mostly just relevant to me and my day job, but may be useful to others too.

Some of these scripts are destructive to Elastic indexes, so use with caution

# List all indexes in alphabetical order
GET _cat/indices?pretty&s=i
# Search an index
GET dev_collections/_search
# Delete an index
DELETE dev_collections_*
# Get mappings for an index
GET dev_collections/_mapping
# Get result by ID
GET dev_idx_*_main/_search
{
  "query": {
    "match": {
      "_id": "someId"
    }
  }
}
# Delete an entire index by query
POST dev_user_activity/_delete_by_query
{
  "query": {
    "match_all": {}
  }
}
# Delete results from an index by query
POST dev_collections/_delete_by_query
{
    "query": {
        "match": {
            "someId": "someValue"
        }
    }
}
# Update licence expiry via Painless script
POST dev_global_settings/_update_by_query
{
  "script": { "source": "ctx._source.licenseExpirationDate = '2026-12-31T00:00:00Z';" }
}