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Elasticsearch uses a YAML (Yet Another Markup Language) configuration file that can be found inside the default Elasticsearch directory (RPM and DEB installs change this location amongst other things). You can set basic settings in config/elasticsearch.yml: # Change the cluster name. All nodes in ...

If you need to apply a setting dynamically after the cluster has already started, and it can actually be set dynamically, then you can set it using _cluster/settings API. Persistent settings are one of the two type of cluster-wide settings that can be applied. A persistent setting will survive a fu...

If you need to apply a setting dynamically after the cluster has already started, and it can actually be set dynamically, then you can set it using _cluster/settings API. Transient settings are one of the two type of cluster-wide settings that can be applied. A transient setting will not survive a ...

Index settings are those settings that apply to a single index. Such settings will start with index.. The exception to that rule is number_of_shards and number_of_replicas, which also exist in the form of index.number_of_shards and index.number_of_replicas. As the name suggests, index-level setting...

You can apply the same change shown in the Index Settings example to all existing indices with one request, or even a subset of them: PUT /*/_settings { "index": { "indexing.slowlog.threshold.index.warn": "1s", "search.slowlog.threshold": { ...