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ElasticSearch Cookbook

ElasticSearch Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Alberto Paro
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ElasticSearch Cookbook

ElasticSearch Cookbook

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By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

If you are a developer who implements ElasticSearch in your web applications and want to sharpen your understanding of the core elements and applications, this is the book for you. It is assumed that you’ve got working knowledge of JSON and, if you want to extend ElasticSearch, of Java and related technologies.
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Setting up a node


ElasticSearch allows you to customize several parameters in an installation. In this recipe, we'll see the most-used ones in order to define where to store data and improve performance in general.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch installation.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to set up a simple node:

  1. Open the config/elasticsearch.yml file with an editor of your choice.

  2. Set up the directories that store your server data:

    • For Linux or Mac OS X:

      path.conf: /opt/data/es/conf
      path.data: /opt/data/es/data1,/opt2/data/data2
      path.work: /opt/data/work
      path.logs: /opt/data/logs
      path.plugins: /opt/data/plugins
    • For Windows:

      path.conf: c:\Elasticsearch\conf
      path.data: c:\Elasticsearch\data
      path.work: c:\Elasticsearch\work
      path.logs: c:\Elasticsearch\logs
      path.plugins: c:\Elasticsearch\plugins
  3. Set up parameters to control the standard index creation. These parameters are:

    index.number_of_shards: 5
    index.number_of_replicas: 1

How it works...

The path.conf parameter defines...

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