ElasticSearch updates are not immediate, how do you wait for ElasticSearch to finish updating it's index?

Question

I\'m attempting to improve performance on a suite that tests against ElasticSearch.

The tests take a long time because Elasticsearch does not update it\'s indexes i

Answer 1

Seems to work for me:

els.indices.refresh(index)
els.cluster.health(wait_for_no_relocating_shards=True,wait_for_active_shards='all')