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Connectors CLI

Connectors CLI is a command-line interface to Elastic Connectors for use in your terminal or scripts.

Warning: Connectors CLI is in tech preview.

Note: Connectors CLI helps with Elastic Connectors managing connectors and running sync jobs. To pick up and execute sync jobs you need to run Connector Service manually.

Installation

  1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/elastic/connectors.git
  2. Run make clean install to install dependencies and create executable files.
  3. Connectors CLI is available via ./bin/connectors

Configuration

Note: Make sure your Elasticsearch instance is up and running.

  1. Run ./bin/connectors login to authenticate the CLI with an Elasticsearch instance.
  2. Provide credentials
  3. The command will create or ask to rewrite an existing configuration file in ./cli/config.yml

By default, the CLI uses basic authentication method (username, password) however an API key can be used too. Run ./bin/connectors login --method apikey to authenticate the CLI via your API key.

When you run any command you can specify a configuration file using -c argument. Example:

./bin/connectors -c <config-file-path.yml> connector list

Available commands

Getting help

Connectors CLI provides a --help/-h argument that can be used with any command to get more information.

For example:

./bin/connectors --help


Usage: connectors [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  -v, --version          Show the version and exit.
  -c, --config FILENAME
  --help                 Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  connector  Connectors management
  index      Search indices management
  job        Sync jobs management
  login      Authenticate Connectors CLI with an Elasticsearch instance

Commands

connectors connector create

Creates a new connector and links it to an Elasticsearch index. When executing the command you will be asked to provide a connector configuration based on the service type you selected. For instance, you will be asked for host, username, and password if you select mysql.

To bypass interactive mode you can use the --from-file argument, pointing to a key-value JSON file with a connectors configuration.

Examples:

./bin/connectors connector create \
  --index-name my-index \
  --service-type sharepoint_online \
  --index-language en \
  --from-file sharepoint-config.json

This will create a new SharePoint Online connector with an Elasticsearch index my-index and configuration from sharepoint-online-config.json.

Note See the connectors' source code to get more information about their configuration fields.

connectors connector list

Lists all the existing connectors

Examples:

./bin/connectors connector list

This will display all existing connectors and the associated indices.

connectors job list

Lists all jobs and their stats.

Examples

./bin/connectors job list -- <connector_id>

This will display all sync jobs including information like job status, number of indexed documents and index data volume associated with connector_id.

connectors job cancel

Marks the job as cancelling to let Connector services know that the job has to be canceled.

Examples:

./bin/connectors job cancel -- <job_id>

connectors job start

Schedules a new sync job and lets Connector service pick it up.

Examples:

./bin/connectors job start -- \
  -i <connector_id> \
  -t <job_type{full,incremental,access_control}> \
  -o <format{text,json}>

This will schedule a new sync job using job type and connector id. The output of the command contains a job id.

connectors job view

Shows information about a sync job.

Examples:

./bin/connectors job view -- <job_id> -o <format{text,json}

This will display information about the job including job id, connector id, indexed document counts and index data value.