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Monitoring Elasticsearch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397807
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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System configuration


Elasticsearch configuration may lead to a number of performance and reliability issues, as mentioned in Chapter 2, Installation and the Requirements for Elasticsearch. A quick reminder that the most important configuration changes to make to your cluster are as follows:

  • Ensuring that the Elasticsearch heap size (ES_HEAP) is set to 1/2 of available system memory, but does not exceed 31 GB. Set this value in /etc/defaults/elasticsearch

  • Disabling memory swapping

  • Locking the Elasticsearch address space into memory by setting bootstrap.mlockall: true in elasticsearch.yml

Refer to Chapter 2, Installation and the Requirements for Elasticsearch, for more detailed instructions on how to set these values.

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