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Mandatory plugins

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Mandatory plugins

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If you rely on some plugins, you can define mandatory plugins by adding plugin.mandatory setting to the config/elasticsearch.yml file, for example:

plugin.mandatory: analysis-icu,lang-js

For safety reasons, a node will not start if it is missing a mandatory plugin.

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