- Elasticsearch Guide: other versions:
- Getting Started
- Set up Elasticsearch
- Installing Elasticsearch
- Configuring Elasticsearch
- Important Elasticsearch configuration
- Secure Settings
- Bootstrap Checks
- Heap size check
- File descriptor check
- Memory lock check
- Maximum number of threads check
- Max file size check
- Maximum size virtual memory check
- Maximum map count check
- Client JVM check
- Use serial collector check
- System call filter check
- OnError and OnOutOfMemoryError checks
- Early-access check
- G1GC check
- Important System Configuration
- Upgrading Elasticsearch
- Stopping Elasticsearch
- Set up X-Pack
- Breaking changes
- Breaking changes in 5.6
- Breaking changes in 5.5
- Breaking changes in 5.4
- Breaking changes in 5.3
- Breaking changes in 5.2
- Breaking changes in 5.1
- Breaking changes in 5.0
- Search and Query DSL changes
- Mapping changes
- Percolator changes
- Suggester changes
- Index APIs changes
- Document API changes
- Settings changes
- Allocation changes
- HTTP changes
- REST API changes
- CAT API changes
- Java API changes
- Packaging
- Plugin changes
- Filesystem related changes
- Path to data on disk
- Aggregation changes
- Script related changes
- API Conventions
- Document APIs
- Search APIs
- Aggregations
- Metrics Aggregations
- Avg Aggregation
- Cardinality Aggregation
- Extended Stats Aggregation
- Geo Bounds Aggregation
- Geo Centroid Aggregation
- Max Aggregation
- Min Aggregation
- Percentiles Aggregation
- Percentile Ranks Aggregation
- Scripted Metric Aggregation
- Stats Aggregation
- Sum Aggregation
- Top hits Aggregation
- Value Count Aggregation
- Bucket Aggregations
- Adjacency Matrix Aggregation
- Children Aggregation
- Date Histogram Aggregation
- Date Range Aggregation
- Diversified Sampler Aggregation
- Filter Aggregation
- Filters Aggregation
- Geo Distance Aggregation
- GeoHash grid Aggregation
- Global Aggregation
- Histogram Aggregation
- IP Range Aggregation
- Missing Aggregation
- Nested Aggregation
- Range Aggregation
- Reverse nested Aggregation
- Sampler Aggregation
- Significant Terms Aggregation
- Terms Aggregation
- Pipeline Aggregations
- Avg Bucket Aggregation
- Derivative Aggregation
- Max Bucket Aggregation
- Min Bucket Aggregation
- Sum Bucket Aggregation
- Stats Bucket Aggregation
- Extended Stats Bucket Aggregation
- Percentiles Bucket Aggregation
- Moving Average Aggregation
- Cumulative Sum Aggregation
- Bucket Script Aggregation
- Bucket Selector Aggregation
- Serial Differencing Aggregation
- Matrix Aggregations
- Caching heavy aggregations
- Returning only aggregation results
- Aggregation Metadata
- Returning the type of the aggregation
- Metrics Aggregations
- Indices APIs
- Create Index
- Delete Index
- Get Index
- Indices Exists
- Open / Close Index API
- Shrink Index
- Rollover Index
- Put Mapping
- Get Mapping
- Get Field Mapping
- Types Exists
- Index Aliases
- Update Indices Settings
- Get Settings
- Analyze
- Index Templates
- Shadow replica indices
- Indices Stats
- Indices Segments
- Indices Recovery
- Indices Shard Stores
- Clear Cache
- Flush
- Refresh
- Force Merge
- cat APIs
- Cluster APIs
- Query DSL
- Mapping
- Analysis
- Anatomy of an analyzer
- Testing analyzers
- Analyzers
- Normalizers
- Tokenizers
- Token Filters
- Standard Token Filter
- ASCII Folding Token Filter
- Flatten Graph Token Filter
- Length Token Filter
- Lowercase Token Filter
- Uppercase Token Filter
- NGram Token Filter
- Edge NGram Token Filter
- Porter Stem Token Filter
- Shingle Token Filter
- Stop Token Filter
- Word Delimiter Token Filter
- Word Delimiter Graph Token Filter
- Stemmer Token Filter
- Stemmer Override Token Filter
- Keyword Marker Token Filter
- Keyword Repeat Token Filter
- KStem Token Filter
- Snowball Token Filter
- Phonetic Token Filter
- Synonym Token Filter
- Synonym Graph Token Filter
- Compound Word Token Filters
- Reverse Token Filter
- Elision Token Filter
- Truncate Token Filter
- Unique Token Filter
- Pattern Capture Token Filter
- Pattern Replace Token Filter
- Trim Token Filter
- Limit Token Count Token Filter
- Hunspell Token Filter
- Common Grams Token Filter
- Normalization Token Filter
- CJK Width Token Filter
- CJK Bigram Token Filter
- Delimited Payload Token Filter
- Keep Words Token Filter
- Keep Types Token Filter
- Classic Token Filter
- Apostrophe Token Filter
- Decimal Digit Token Filter
- Fingerprint Token Filter
- Minhash Token Filter
- Character Filters
- Modules
- Index Modules
- Ingest Node
- Pipeline Definition
- Ingest APIs
- Accessing Data in Pipelines
- Handling Failures in Pipelines
- Processors
- Append Processor
- Convert Processor
- Date Processor
- Date Index Name Processor
- Fail Processor
- Foreach Processor
- Grok Processor
- Gsub Processor
- Join Processor
- JSON Processor
- KV Processor
- Lowercase Processor
- Remove Processor
- Rename Processor
- Script Processor
- Set Processor
- Split Processor
- Sort Processor
- Trim Processor
- Uppercase Processor
- Dot Expander Processor
- X-Pack APIs
- Info API
- Explore API
- Machine Learning APIs
- Close Jobs
- Create Datafeeds
- Create Jobs
- Delete Datafeeds
- Delete Jobs
- Delete Model Snapshots
- Flush Jobs
- Get Buckets
- Get Categories
- Get Datafeeds
- Get Datafeed Statistics
- Get Influencers
- Get Jobs
- Get Job Statistics
- Get Model Snapshots
- Get Records
- Open Jobs
- Post Data to Jobs
- Preview Datafeeds
- Revert Model Snapshots
- Start Datafeeds
- Stop Datafeeds
- Update Datafeeds
- Update Jobs
- Update Model Snapshots
- Security APIs
- Watcher APIs
- Migration APIs
- Deprecation Info APIs
- Definitions
- X-Pack Commands
- How To
- Testing
- Glossary of terms
- Release Notes
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WARNING: Version 5.6 of Elasticsearch has passed its EOL date.
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
Packaging
editPackaging
editAPT/YUM repository URL changes
editThe repository for apt and yum packages has changed from
https://packages.elastic.co
to https://artifacts.elastic.co/
.
Full details can be found in Installing Elasticsearch.
Default logging using systemd (since Elasticsearch 2.2.0)
editIn previous versions of Elasticsearch, the default logging configuration routed standard output to /dev/null and standard error to the journal. However, there are often critical error messages at startup that are logged to standard output rather than standard error and these error messages would be lost to the nether. The default has changed to now route standard output to the journal and standard error to inherit this setting (these are the defaults for systemd). These settings can be modified by editing the elasticsearch.service file.
Longer startup times
editIn Elasticsearch 5.0.0 the -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch
flag has been added to the JVM
startup options. This option touches all memory pages used by the JVM heap
during initialization of the HotSpot VM to reduce the chance of having to commit
a memory page during GC time. This will increase the startup time of
Elasticsearch as well as increasing the initial resident memory usage of the
Java process.
JVM options
editArguments to the Java Virtual Machine have been centralized and moved to a new configuration file jvm.options. This centralization allows for simpler end-user management of JVM options.
This migration removes all previous mechanisms of setting JVM options
via the environment variables ES_MIN_MEM
, ES_MAX_MEM
,
ES_HEAP_SIZE
, ES_HEAP_NEWSIZE
, ES_DIRECT_SIZE
, ES_USE_IPV4
,
ES_GC_OPTS
, ES_GC_LOG_FILE
, and JAVA_OPTS
.
The default location for this file is in config/jvm.options if installing
from the tar or zip distributions, and /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options if installing
from the Debian or RPM packages. You can specify an alternative location by setting
the environment variable ES_JVM_OPTIONS
to the path to the file.
Thread stack size for the Windows service
editPreviously when installing the Windows service, the installation script would configure the thread stack size (this is required for the service daemon). As a result of moving all JVM configuration to the jvm.options file, the service installation script no longer configures the thread stack size. When installing the Windows service, you must configure thread stack size. For additional details, see the installation docs.
/bin/bash is now required
editPreviously, the scripts used to start Elasticsearch and run plugin
commands only required a Bourne-compatible shell. Starting in
Elasticsearch 5.0.0, the bash shell is now required and /bin/bash
is a
hard-dependency for the RPM and Debian packages.
Environmental Settings
editPreviously, Elasticsearch could be configured via environment variables
in two ways: first by using the placeholder syntax
${env.ENV_VAR_NAME}
and the second by using the same syntax without
the env
prefix: ${ENV_VAR_NAME}
. The first method has been removed
from Elasticsearch.
Additionally, it was previously possible to set any setting in Elasticsearch via JVM system properties. This has been removed from Elasticsearch.
Dying on fatal errors
editPrevious versions of Elasticsearch would not halt the JVM if out of memory errors or other fatal errors were encountered during the life of the Elasticsearch instance. Because such errors leave the JVM in a questionable state, the best course of action is to halt the JVM when this occurs. Starting in Elasticsearch 5.x, this is now the case. Operators should consider configuring their Elasticsearch services so that they respawn automatically in the case of such a fatal crash.
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