AdeshSuryan

Magento 2.0 system automatically saves the changes and updates the system.The changes may include anything starting from adding a new category, new products, new catalog, changes in the cost and similarly other data. Magento 2 is not so hard for the expert.  Unlike Magento 1 it’s not allowing for manual re index. Magento 2 is allow auto  re-index in admin panel for below action.

1. Update on Save.
2. Update by schedule via CRON job.

Magento 2 is tightly coupled with command line interface. The more you use Magento 2 ,the more you’ll know Cli or SSH.

Prerequisites
For this post, you will need:

A system running Ubuntu 16.04

LAMP

Magento2

Magento 2 re-index via command line:
Go to root directory of Magento from terminal (Linux, window etc.)

cd <magento-root-path>/bin

 

1. Get list of available indexer in Magento 2 :

#Linux

./magento indexer:info

#Windows

php magento indexr:info

# Output :

design_config_grid Design                       Config Grid
customer_grid                                   Customer Grid
catalog_category_product                        Category Products
catalog_product_category                        Product Categories
catalog_product_price                           Product Price
catalog_product_attribute                       Product EAV
cataloginventory_stock                          Stock
catalogrule_rule                                Catalog Rule Product
catalogrule_product                             Catalog Product Rule
catalogsearch_fulltext                          Catalog Search

 

2. Get status of Magento 2 indexer :

Below command will get you the status of all the indexer whether indexing is required or ready.

#Linux

./magento indexer:status

#Windows

php magento indexer:status


#Output:

Design Config Grid:             Ready
Customer Grid:                  Ready
Category Products:              Ready
Product Categories:             Ready
Product Price:                  Ready
Product EAV:                    Ready
Stock:                          Ready
Catalog Rule Product:           Ready
Catalog Product Rule:           Ready
Catalog Search:                 Ready

 

3.Get individual indexer status

#Linux

./magento indexer:status catalog_product_attribute

#Windows

php magento indexer:status catalog_product_attribute

#Output : Product EAV: Reindex required

 

4. Reindex all Magento 2 indexer :

#Linux
./magento indexer:reindex


#Windows
php magento indexer:reindex


#Output :

Design Config Grid index has been rebuilt successfully in 00:00:04
Customer Grid index has been rebuilt successfully in 00:00:04
Category Products index has been rebuilt successfully in 00:00:00
Product Categories index has been rebuilt successfully in 00:00:00
Product Price index has been rebuilt successfully in 00:00:00
Product EAV index has been rebuilt successfully in 00:00:00
Stock index has been rebuilt successfully in 00:00:00
Catalog Rule Product index has been rebuilt successfully in 00:00:00
Catalog Product Rule index has been rebuilt successfully in 00:00:00
Catalog Search index has been rebuilt successfully in 00:00:04

 

Note :  On windows machine using command prompt you need to run command using php installed or using php.exe path.