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Set up Elasticsearch

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Set up Elasticsearch

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This section includes information on how to setup Elasticsearch and get it running, including:

  • Downloading
  • Installing
  • Starting
  • Configuring

Supported platforms

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The matrix of officially supported operating systems and JVMs is available here: Support Matrix. Elasticsearch is tested on the listed platforms, but it is possible that it will work on other platforms too.

Use dedicated hosts

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In production, we recommend you run Elasticsearch on a dedicated host or as a primary service. Several Elasticsearch features, such as automatic JVM heap sizing, assume it’s the only resource-intensive application on the host or container. For example, you might run Metricbeat alongside Elasticsearch for cluster statistics, but a resource-heavy Logstash deployment should be on its own host.

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