ElasticSearch Server

Configuring ElasticSearch

One of the reasons—but of course, not the only one—that ElasticSearch is gaining more and more attention is because getting started with ElasticSearch is quite easy. Because of the reasonable default values and automatics for simple environments, we can skip the configuration and go straight to the next chapter without changing a single line in our configuration files. However, in order to truly understand ElasticSearch, it is worth understanding some of the available settings.

The whole configuration is located in the config directory. We can see two files there: elasticsearch.yml (or elasticsearch.json, which will be used if present) and logging.yml. The first file is responsible for setting the default configuration ...