Disable searching across all indices (original) (raw)

Hitting /_search causes elasticsearch to search all types, all indices.
With very large indices this is a problem.
We currently have ~30Tb of data across multiple logstash indices.

If someone talks to ES (eg, using sense or a other method) and doesn't specify the index name, the cluster effectively grinds to a half until we restart it.

Can we have an option to require specifying at least one index name to the search endpoint?

Thanks!