prunr 0.1.2

Scan your Elasticsearch/OpenSearch cluster. Find dead indices, wasted storage, and cost savings.

Prunr

Scan your Elasticsearch / OpenSearch cluster. Find dead indices, wasted storage, and cost savings.

Prunr is a read-only CLI tool that connects to your cluster, analyzes index usage patterns, and tells you exactly what you can safely delete, shrink, or archive — with confidence levels and estimated savings.

Prunr never writes to your cluster. All operations are read-only. It uses _cat/indices, _stats, and _cluster/health — nothing else.

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Install

pip install prunr

Or with pipx (recommended):

pipx install prunr

Requires Python 3.11+.

Quick start

# Scan a cluster
prunr scan --host http://localhost:9200

# With authentication
prunr scan --host https://my-cluster:9200 --user admin --password secret

# Save JSON report
prunr scan --host http://localhost:9200 --format json --output report.json

# Try it without a cluster (built-in demo data)
prunr scan --demo

Sample output

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ PRUNR CLUSTER REPORT                                                         │
│ Cluster: prod-logging-cluster  |  26 indices  |  1024.3 GB  |  12 nodes      │
│ Scanned: 2026-04-13 01:24:38 UTC                                             │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─────────────────────────────── Cost Overview ────────────────────────────────╮
│   ESTIMATED MONTHLY COST:  $102                                              │
│   ESTIMATED ANNUAL WASTE:  $167                                              │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

TOP RECOMMENDATIONS (by annual savings)

  1. REVIEW  api-access-* (multiple patterns)  (90.3 GB)
     Confidence: LOW
     Annual savings: $54
     Reasoning:
       ⚠ Service 'api-access' appears in 2 different index patterns
       ⚠ These may contain overlapping data from multiple pipelines

  2. DELETE  filebeat-2024.01  (26.1 GB)
     Confidence: MEDIUM
     Annual savings: $31
     Reasoning:
       ⚠ 0 queries since cluster restart
       ⚠ 0 indexing activity

  3. DELETE  debug-traces-2024.08.15  (11.5 GB)
     Confidence: HIGH
     Annual savings: $14
     Reasoning:
       ✓ 0 queries since cluster restart
       ✓ 0 indexing activity
       ✓ Index name matches low-value pattern: debug-traces-2024.08.15

A full sample JSON report is in examples/sample-report.json.

What Prunr detects

Analyzer	What it finds	Action
Dead index	Indices with 0 queries and 0 writes since last restart	DELETE
Retention	Date-based index series where old indices are never queried	REDUCE RETENTION
Storage hog	Largest indices by size — surfaces the biggest saving opportunities	REVIEW
Duplicate	Multiple versioned indices (e.g. logs-v1, logs-v2) that may overlap	REVIEW
Shard	Over-sharded indices (many tiny shards wasting cluster memory)	MERGE SHARDS

Each recommendation includes:

• Confidence level: HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW
• Evidence: specific metrics (query count, indexing rate, size, pattern matches)
• Estimated annual savings in USD (based on --cost-per-gb, default $0.10/GB/mo)

Confidence levels

Level	Meaning
HIGH	Strong evidence — safe to act on after quick verification
MEDIUM	Likely waste — worth investigating
LOW	Possible issue — needs human review before acting

CLI reference

prunr scan [OPTIONS]

Options:
  --host TEXT              ES/OpenSearch URL (e.g. https://localhost:9200)
  --api-key TEXT           API key for authentication
  --user TEXT              Username for basic auth
  --password TEXT          Password for basic auth
  --cost-per-gb FLOAT     Cost per GB per month in USD (default: 0.10)
  --format [terminal|json] Output format (default: terminal)
  --output TEXT            Save report to file
  --no-verify-certs       Skip TLS certificate verification
  --demo                  Run with built-in sample data (no cluster needed)

Safety

Prunr is strictly read-only. It will never:

• Delete, close, or modify any index
• Change cluster settings
• Write data to your cluster
• Require any write permissions

The only APIs it calls are:

• GET / (version check)
• GET /_cat/indices
• GET /_stats
• GET /_cluster/health

You can safely run it against production clusters.

Limitations

• Query and indexing counts reset on node restart — Prunr can only see activity since the last restart
• Cost estimates use a flat $/GB/month rate; real costs depend on instance types, reserved pricing, and I/O
• Duplicate detection is heuristic (name-pattern based), not content-based
• Currently supports a single cluster per scan

Development

git clone https://github.com/rickyruima/prunr.git
cd prunr
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest -v

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE for details.