Trigger Specification

This specification describes the elasticsearch trigger that scales based on result of an elasticsearch search template query.

The trigger always requires the following information:

triggers:
  - type: elasticsearch
    metadata:
      addresses: "http://localhost:9200"
      username: "elastic"
      passwordFromEnv: "ELASTIC_PASSWORD"
      index: "my-index"
      searchTemplateName: "my-search-template-name"
      parameters: "param1:value1;param2:value2"
      valueLocation: "hits.total.value"
      targetValue: "1.1"
      activationTargetValue: "5.5"

Parameter list:

• addresses - Comma separated list of hosts and ports of the Elasticsearch cluster client nodes.
• username - Username to authenticate with to Elasticsearch cluster.
• passwordFromEnv - Environment variable to read the authentication password from to authenticate with the Elasticsearch cluster.
• index - Index to run the search template query on. It supports multiple indexes separated by a semicolon character ( ; ).
• searchTemplateName - The search template name to run.
• targetValue - Target value to scale on. When the metric provided by the API is equal or higher to this value, KEDA will start scaling out. When the metric is 0 or less, KEDA will scale down to 0. (This value can be a float)
• activationTargetValue - Target value for activating the scaler. Learn more about activation here.(Default: 0, Optional, This value can be a float)
• parameters - Parameters that will be used by the search template. It supports multiple params separated by a semicolon character ( ; ).
• valueLocation - GJSON path notation to refer to the field in the payload containing the metric value.
• unsafeSsl - Skip certificate validation when connecting over HTTPS. (Values: true, false, Default: false, Optional)

Authentication Parameters

You can authenticate by using a username/password or apiKey/cloudID if you’re using using ElasticSearch on Elastic Cloud.

Password Authentication:

• username - Username to authenticate with to Elasticsearch cluster.
• password - Password for configured user to login to Elasticsearch cluster.

Cloud ID and API Key Authentication:

Cloud ID and API Key can be used for Elastic Cloud Service.

• cloudID - CloudID to connect with ElasticSearch on Elastic Cloud.
• apiKey - API key to authenticate with ElasticSearch on Elastic Cloud.

Example

Here is an example of how to deploy a scaled object with the elasticsearch scale trigger which uses TriggerAuthentication.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: elasticsearch-secrets
type: Opaque
data:
  password: cGFzc3cwcmQh
---
apiVersion: keda.sh/v1alpha1
kind: TriggerAuthentication
metadata:
  name: keda-trigger-auth-elasticsearch-secret
spec:
  secretTargetRef:
  - parameter: password
    name: elasticsearch-secrets
    key: password
---
apiVersion: keda.sh/v1alpha1
kind: ScaledObject
metadata:
  name: elasticsearch-scaledobject
spec:
  scaleTargetRef:
    name: "deployment-name"
  triggers:
    - type: elasticsearch
      metadata:
        addresses: "http://localhost:9200"
        username: "elastic"
        index: "my-index"
        searchTemplateName: "my-search-template"
        valueLocation: "hits.total.value"
        targetValue: "10"
        parameters: "dummy_value:1"
      authenticationRef:
        name: keda-trigger-auth-elasticsearch-secret