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

If you use bulk helpers you can do it like this:

from elasticsearch.helpers import bulk    
bulk(client=self.es, actions=data, refresh='wait_for')