...There are two ways of running and installing elasticsearch-head. Running as a plugin of ElasticSearch (this is the preferred method). And running as a standalone webapp. By default es-head will immediately attempt to connect to a cluster node at http://localhost:9200/. Enter a different node address in the connect box and click 'Connect' if required. A ClusterOverview, which shows the topology of your cluster and allows you to perform index and node level operations. A couple of search interfaces that allow you to query the cluster a retrieve results in raw json or tabular format. ...