How to reindex Gitlab Advanced_search
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Published  : 1 January 2025
Reading    : 1 min
Tags       : gitlab
URL        : https://ctrl-find.nl/posts/gitlab_reindex/
Plain text : https://ctrl-find.nl/posts/gitlab_reindex/index.txt

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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;

```bash
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;

```bash
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;

```bash
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.


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