Raigad is a process/tool that runs alongside Elasticsearch to automate the following:

• Snapshot backup and restore.
• Configured deployments for a dedicated master/data/search approach.
• Tribe node deployments.
• Publishing Elasticsearch monitoring metrics.
• Support for AWS environment.

Elasticsearch is open source, distributed, real-time search and analytics engine: https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch/

The name “Raigad” refers to the name of an Indian fort in state of Maharashtra.

Raigad is actively developed and used at Netflix.

Features:

• Support multi-region Elasticsearch deployment in AWS via public IP.
• Automated security group update in multi-region environment.
• REST APIs for backup/restore and other operations.