Reindexing and Updating Documents in Elasticsearch 7.13

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Reindexing and Updating Documents in Elasticsearch 7.13

If you’ve already indexed a bunch of data into Elasticsearch and changed your mind on how you want it stored, then you don’t have to worry, because in this hands-on lab, you will get to use the reindex and update-by-query APIs in Elasticsearch to modify already ingested data.

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Lab Info

Level

Advanced

Last updated

Sep 24, 2025

Duration

2h 0m

Challenge

Fix the Typo for the King Lear Play

From the Kibana console on the es1 node, update the shakespeare index to fix the misspelled "King Leer" play_name to "King Lear".
Challenge

Copy the Shakespeare Index from the es1 Node to the Shakespeare Node

From the Kibana console on the shakespeare node, remote copy the shakespeare index from es1 to a local shakespeare index.

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