I have a django application that stores status info of lots of sensors and I'm trying to use elasticsearch to store all of the status data, for further analysis.
I have used elasticsearch a lot in Python scripts in general.
My question is how to integrate elasticsearch-py/elasticsearch-dsl connection pooling into a django application. I would like to not create a connection for every request. I'm actually trying to embeed it into MyAppConfig inside apps.py but I'm not sure if it's a good idea.
Any help?
Elasticsearch-dsl can be integrated easily using the ready app function in the following way.
/init.py
default_app_config = '<app>.apps.AppConfig'
/apps.py
import logging
from django.apps import AppConfig
from django.conf import settings
from elasticsearch_dsl.connections import connections
log = logging.getLogger('elastic')
class AppConfig(AppConfig):
name = <app_name>
def ready(self):
connections.configure(**settings.ELASTICSEARCH)
then in django settings I have a dictionary called elasticsearch with alias configurations
ELASTICSEARCH = {
'default': {
'hosts': [
{
'host': <your_host>,
'port': <your_host_port>,
'verify_certs': True,
'use_ssl': True,
'http_auth': (
<auth_name>,
<auth_passwd>
)
}
]
},
'dev': {
'hosts': [
{
'host': 'localhost',
'port': 9200
}
]
}
}