How to reindex Gitlab Advanced_search

A quick way to reindex search

Sebastiaan
January 1, 2025
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Advanced Search page Gitlab

Go to the Admin page in Gitlab > Settings > Advanced Search Expand Advanced Search to see the configuration.

Disabling feature

Go to the Advanced search page in Gitlab De-select the following options;

Elasticsearch indexing
Search with Elasticsearch enabled

Recreate indices

Login and connect to the gitlab instance. We can remove the current indices and recreate them as new with following command;

gitlab-rake gitlab:elastic:recreate_index

Enabling indexing

Go to the Advanced search page in Gitlab. We enable the Elasticsearch indexing option and Press “Index all projects” button. In the background ElasticSearch will be populated with information The state can be found with following command;

gitlab-rake gitlab:elastic:info

Enabling Search capability

When the information from the command above said 0 in queue, we can enable the search option. Go to the Advanced search page in Gitlab. Select the Search with Elasticsearch enabled option and verifiy with following command;

gitlab-rake gitlab:elastic:info

Now both Indexing and Search enabled should be on “yes”

Check GUI

When we go to the gitlab page and search for something the Code and Merge Request options should be visible.