Elasticsearch API Connector - local dev?

[ColeDCrawford]

Describe the bug In production I will be using Elastic Cloud, but want to be able to connect to my localhost version of Elasticsearch during development. It is running at https://localhost:9200 with Docker Compose. I am trying to connect using an API key. If I provide https://localhost:9200 as the host, I get the error http client did not trust this server's certificate, closing connection from Elasticsearch and An unexpected error occurred: Failed to fetch from SearchUI on the client side console. If I use http://localhost:9200, I get received plaintext http traffic on an https channel, closing connection. Is there a way to run this without proxying, either through an Elasticsearch config change or a SearchUI config change? On the backend of my app I am using Django Elasticsearch DSL and can pass in the ca.crt, but I don't think there are any options for this in SearchUI unless there's a custom headers option I am missing.

@joemcelroy any ideas?

Which backends and packages are you using: Backend: Elasticsearch 8.12 Packages:

    "@elastic/react-search-ui-views": "1.20.2",
    "@elastic/search-ui": "1.20.2",
    "@elastic/search-ui-app-search-connector": "1.20.2",
    "@elastic/search-ui-elasticsearch-connector": "1.20.2"

[ColeDCrawford]

Any notes here, or is it not possible to use with a local Elasticsearch instance without proxying?

[joemcelroy]

hey its possible to use locally but theres couple of things:

• when elasticsearch has security turned on (by default with 8.x) the certificate is self signed. If you want to develop directly against the elasticsearch instance, you can disable security https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/tutorials/install-elasticsearch/docker
• You will also need to enable CORS, so that you can call elasticsearch directly from a different port. See searchkit docs https://www.searchkit.co/docs/guides/enable-cors