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Monitoring Elasticsearch

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Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397807
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Configuring an Elasticsearch cluster

This section will cover some basic Elasticsearch configuration in addition to a few changes that will positively impact your cluster's performance.

Most Elasticsearch configuration changes will be applied to elasticsearch.yml. For our installation of Elasticsearch on Ubuntu, this file is located at /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml. Elasticsearch internal configuration changes are applied to elasticsearch.yml. Environmental variables can be set in the application's startup script. For our installation of Elasticsearch 2.3.2 on Ubuntu, these files are in the following locations:

  • Internal Configuration is located at

    /etc/elasticsearch/ elasticsearch.yml

  • Environmental Variable Configuration is located at

    /etc/defau lts/elasticsearch

Cluster name

A wonderful thing about Elasticsearch is the ease with which you can build a cluster. Elasticsearch nodes on the same local area network (LAN) will automatically form a cluster with each other if they...

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Monitoring Elasticsearch
Published in: Jul 2016
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781784397807
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