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Important System Configuration
editImportant System Configuration
editIdeally, Elasticsearch should run alone on a server and use all of the resources available to it. In order to do so, you need to configure your operating system to allow the user running Elasticsearch to access more resources than allowed by default.
The following settings must be addressed before going to production:
Development mode vs production mode
editBy default, Elasticsearch assumes that you are working in development mode. If any of the above settings are not configured correctly, a warning will be written to the log file, but you will be able to start and run your Elasticsearch node.
As soon as you configure a network setting like network.host, Elasticsearch
assumes that you are moving to production and will upgrade the above warnings
to exceptions. These exceptions will prevent your Elasticsearch node from
starting. This is an important safety measure to ensure that you will not
lose data because of a malconfigured server.