Elasticsearch

A Model Context Protocol server for Elasticsearch clusters. Enables LLMs to manage indices and execute queries.

IMPORTANT NOTE : this was built mainly by feeding examples to claude from the postgres mcp server.

Components

Tools

search
- Execute search queries against indices
- Input:
  - index (string): Target index name
  - query (object): Elasticsearch query DSL
- Returns search hits
create_index
- Create new Elasticsearch indices
- Input:
  - index (string): Index name
  - mappings (object, optional): Index mappings configuration
  - settings (object, optional): Index settings configuration
list_indices
- List all available indices
- No input required
- Returns array of index information
index_document
- Index a document
- Input:
  - index (string): Target index name
  - id (string, optional): Document ID
  - document (object): Document content
- Returns indexing operation result

Resources

The server provides mapping information for each index:

Index Mappings (elasticsearch://<host>/<index>/schema)
- JSON mapping information
- Field names, types and configurations
- Automatically discovered from metadata

Related MCP server: MongoDB MCP Server for LLMs

Usage with Claude Desktop

Add to the "mcpServers" section of your claude_desktop_config.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "elasticsearch": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-elasticsearch", "http://localhost:9200" ] } } }

Docker one liner to run container :

docker run -d --name elasticsearch -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e "discovery.type=single-node" -e "xpack.security.enabled=false" docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.11.3

Replace the URL with your Elasticsearch endpoint.