easy way to make an elasticsearch server read-only

Question

It\'s really easy to just upload a bunch of json data to an elasticsearch server to have a basic query api, with lots of options

I\'d just like to know if there\'s and e

Answer 1

You can set a readonly flag on your index, this does limit some operations though, so you will need to see if thats acceptable.

curl -XPUT http://:9200//_settings -d'
{
    "index":{
        "blocks":{
            "read_only":true
        }
    }
}'

As mentioned in one of the other answers, really you should have ES running in a trusted environment, where you can control access to it.

More information on index settings here : http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/admin-indices-update-settings/