- Elasticsearch Guide: other versions:
- Getting Started
- Set up Elasticsearch
- Installing Elasticsearch
- Configuring Elasticsearch
- Important Elasticsearch configuration
- Important System Configuration
- Bootstrap Checks
- Heap size check
- File descriptor check
- Memory lock check
- Maximum number of threads check
- Max file size check
- Maximum size virtual memory check
- Maximum map count check
- Client JVM check
- Use serial collector check
- System call filter check
- OnError and OnOutOfMemoryError checks
- Early-access check
- G1GC check
- All permission check
- Starting Elasticsearch
- Stopping Elasticsearch
- Adding nodes to your cluster
- Installing X-Pack
- Set up X-Pack
- Configuring X-Pack Java Clients
- X-Pack Settings
- Bootstrap Checks for X-Pack
- Upgrade Elasticsearch
- API Conventions
- Document APIs
- Search APIs
- Aggregations
- Metrics Aggregations
- Avg Aggregation
- Weighted Avg Aggregation
- Cardinality Aggregation
- Extended Stats Aggregation
- Geo Bounds Aggregation
- Geo Centroid Aggregation
- Max Aggregation
- Min Aggregation
- Percentiles Aggregation
- Percentile Ranks Aggregation
- Scripted Metric Aggregation
- Stats Aggregation
- Sum Aggregation
- Top Hits Aggregation
- Value Count Aggregation
- Bucket Aggregations
- Adjacency Matrix Aggregation
- Auto-interval Date Histogram Aggregation
- Intervals
- Children Aggregation
- Composite Aggregation
- Date Histogram Aggregation
- Date Range Aggregation
- Diversified Sampler Aggregation
- Filter Aggregation
- Filters Aggregation
- Geo Distance Aggregation
- GeoHash grid Aggregation
- Global Aggregation
- Histogram Aggregation
- IP Range Aggregation
- Missing Aggregation
- Nested Aggregation
- Range Aggregation
- Reverse nested Aggregation
- Sampler Aggregation
- Significant Terms Aggregation
- Significant Text Aggregation
- Terms Aggregation
- Pipeline Aggregations
- Avg Bucket Aggregation
- Derivative Aggregation
- Max Bucket Aggregation
- Min Bucket Aggregation
- Sum Bucket Aggregation
- Stats Bucket Aggregation
- Extended Stats Bucket Aggregation
- Percentiles Bucket Aggregation
- Moving Average Aggregation
- Moving Function Aggregation
- Cumulative Sum Aggregation
- Bucket Script Aggregation
- Bucket Selector Aggregation
- Bucket Sort Aggregation
- Serial Differencing Aggregation
- Matrix Aggregations
- Caching heavy aggregations
- Returning only aggregation results
- Aggregation Metadata
- Returning the type of the aggregation
- Metrics Aggregations
- Indices APIs
- Create Index
- Delete Index
- Get Index
- Indices Exists
- Open / Close Index API
- Shrink Index
- Split Index
- Rollover Index
- Put Mapping
- Get Mapping
- Get Field Mapping
- Types Exists
- Index Aliases
- Update Indices Settings
- Get Settings
- Analyze
- Index Templates
- Indices Stats
- Indices Segments
- Indices Recovery
- Indices Shard Stores
- Clear Cache
- Flush
- Refresh
- Force Merge
- cat APIs
- Cluster APIs
- Query DSL
- Mapping
- Analysis
- Anatomy of an analyzer
- Testing analyzers
- Analyzers
- Normalizers
- Tokenizers
- Standard Tokenizer
- Letter Tokenizer
- Lowercase Tokenizer
- Whitespace Tokenizer
- UAX URL Email Tokenizer
- Classic Tokenizer
- Thai Tokenizer
- NGram Tokenizer
- Edge NGram Tokenizer
- Keyword Tokenizer
- Pattern Tokenizer
- Char Group Tokenizer
- Simple Pattern Tokenizer
- Simple Pattern Split Tokenizer
- Path Hierarchy Tokenizer
- Path Hierarchy Tokenizer Examples
- Token Filters
- Standard Token Filter
- ASCII Folding Token Filter
- Flatten Graph Token Filter
- Length Token Filter
- Lowercase Token Filter
- Uppercase Token Filter
- NGram Token Filter
- Edge NGram Token Filter
- Porter Stem Token Filter
- Shingle Token Filter
- Stop Token Filter
- Word Delimiter Token Filter
- Word Delimiter Graph Token Filter
- Multiplexer Token Filter
- Conditional Token Filter
- Predicate Token Filter Script
- Stemmer Token Filter
- Stemmer Override Token Filter
- Keyword Marker Token Filter
- Keyword Repeat Token Filter
- KStem Token Filter
- Snowball Token Filter
- Phonetic Token Filter
- Synonym Token Filter
- Synonym Graph Token Filter
- Compound Word Token Filters
- Reverse Token Filter
- Elision Token Filter
- Truncate Token Filter
- Unique Token Filter
- Pattern Capture Token Filter
- Pattern Replace Token Filter
- Trim Token Filter
- Limit Token Count Token Filter
- Hunspell Token Filter
- Common Grams Token Filter
- Normalization Token Filter
- CJK Width Token Filter
- CJK Bigram Token Filter
- Delimited Payload Token Filter
- Keep Words Token Filter
- Keep Types Token Filter
- Exclude mode settings example
- Classic Token Filter
- Apostrophe Token Filter
- Decimal Digit Token Filter
- Fingerprint Token Filter
- Minhash Token Filter
- Remove Duplicates Token Filter
- Character Filters
- Modules
- Index Modules
- Ingest Node
- Pipeline Definition
- Ingest APIs
- Accessing Data in Pipelines
- Conditional Execution in Pipelines
- Handling Failures in Pipelines
- Processors
- Append Processor
- Bytes Processor
- Convert Processor
- Date Processor
- Date Index Name Processor
- Dissect Processor
- Drop Processor
- Dot Expander Processor
- Fail Processor
- Foreach Processor
- Grok Processor
- Gsub Processor
- Join Processor
- JSON Processor
- KV Processor
- Lowercase Processor
- Pipeline Processor
- Remove Processor
- Rename Processor
- Script Processor
- Set Processor
- Set Security User Processor
- Split Processor
- Sort Processor
- Trim Processor
- Uppercase Processor
- URL Decode Processor
- SQL Access
- Monitor a cluster
- Rolling up historical data
- Set up a cluster for high availability
- Secure a cluster
- Overview
- Configuring security
- Encrypting communications in Elasticsearch
- Encrypting communications in an Elasticsearch Docker Container
- Enabling cipher suites for stronger encryption
- Separating node-to-node and client traffic
- Configuring an Active Directory realm
- Configuring a file realm
- Configuring an LDAP realm
- Configuring a native realm
- Configuring a PKI realm
- Configuring a SAML realm
- Configuring a Kerberos realm
- FIPS 140-2
- Security settings
- Security files
- Auditing settings
- How security works
- User authentication
- Built-in users
- Internal users
- Realms
- Realm chains
- Active Directory user authentication
- File-based user authentication
- LDAP user authentication
- Native user authentication
- PKI user authentication
- SAML authentication
- Kerberos authentication
- Integrating with other authentication systems
- Enabling anonymous access
- Controlling the user cache
- Configuring SAML single-sign-on on the Elastic Stack
- User authorization
- Auditing security events
- Encrypting communications
- Restricting connections with IP filtering
- Cross cluster search, tribe, clients, and integrations
- Tutorial: Getting started with security
- Tutorial: Encrypting communications
- Troubleshooting
- Can’t log in after upgrading to 6.5.4
- Some settings are not returned via the nodes settings API
- Authorization exceptions
- Users command fails due to extra arguments
- Users are frequently locked out of Active Directory
- Certificate verification fails for curl on Mac
- SSLHandshakeException causes connections to fail
- Common SSL/TLS exceptions
- Common Kerberos exceptions
- Common SAML issues
- Internal Server Error in Kibana
- Setup-passwords command fails due to connection failure
- Failures due to relocation of the configuration files
- Limitations
- Alerting on Cluster and Index Events
- Command line tools
- How To
- Testing
- Glossary of terms
- X-Pack APIs
- Info API
- Cross-cluster replication APIs
- Explore API
- Licensing APIs
- Migration APIs
- Machine learning APIs
- Add events to calendar
- Add jobs to calendar
- Close jobs
- Create calendar
- Create datafeeds
- Create filter
- Create jobs
- Delete calendar
- Delete datafeeds
- Delete events from calendar
- Delete filter
- Delete forecast
- Delete jobs
- Delete jobs from calendar
- Delete model snapshots
- Find file structure
- Flush jobs
- Forecast jobs
- Get calendars
- Get buckets
- Get overall buckets
- Get categories
- Get datafeeds
- Get datafeed statistics
- Get influencers
- Get jobs
- Get job statistics
- Get machine learning info
- Get model snapshots
- Get scheduled events
- Get filters
- Get records
- Open jobs
- Post data to jobs
- Preview datafeeds
- Revert model snapshots
- Start datafeeds
- Stop datafeeds
- Update datafeeds
- Update filter
- Update jobs
- Update model snapshots
- Rollup APIs
- Security APIs
- Authenticate
- Change passwords
- Clear cache
- Clear roles cache
- Create or update application privileges
- Create or update role mappings
- Create or update roles
- Create or update users
- Delete application privileges
- Delete role mappings
- Delete roles
- Delete users
- Disable users
- Enable users
- Get application privileges
- Get role mappings
- Get roles
- Get token
- Get users
- Has privileges
- Invalidate token
- SSL certificate
- Watcher APIs
- Definitions
- Release Highlights
- Breaking changes
- Release Notes
- Elasticsearch version 6.5.4
- Elasticsearch version 6.5.3
- Elasticsearch version 6.5.2
- Elasticsearch version 6.5.1
- Elasticsearch version 6.5.0
- Elasticsearch version 6.4.3
- Elasticsearch version 6.4.2
- Elasticsearch version 6.4.1
- Elasticsearch version 6.4.0
- Elasticsearch version 6.3.2
- Elasticsearch version 6.3.1
- Elasticsearch version 6.3.0
- Elasticsearch version 6.2.4
- Elasticsearch version 6.2.3
- Elasticsearch version 6.2.2
- Elasticsearch version 6.2.1
- Elasticsearch version 6.2.0
- Elasticsearch version 6.1.4
- Elasticsearch version 6.1.3
- Elasticsearch version 6.1.2
- Elasticsearch version 6.1.1
- Elasticsearch version 6.1.0
- Elasticsearch version 6.0.1
- Elasticsearch version 6.0.0
- Elasticsearch version 6.0.0-rc2
- Elasticsearch version 6.0.0-rc1
- Elasticsearch version 6.0.0-beta2
- Elasticsearch version 6.0.0-beta1
- Elasticsearch version 6.0.0-alpha2
- Elasticsearch version 6.0.0-alpha1
- Elasticsearch version 6.0.0-alpha1 (Changes previously released in 5.x)
Install Elasticsearch with Windows MSI Installer
editInstall Elasticsearch with Windows MSI Installer
editThis functionality is in beta and is subject to change. The design and code is less mature than official GA features and is being provided as-is with no warranties. Beta features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
Elasticsearch can be installed on Windows using the .msi
package. This can
install Elasticsearch as a Windows service or allow it to be run manually using
the included elasticsearch.exe
executable.
Elasticsearch has historically been installed on Windows using the .zip archive.
You can continue using the .zip
approach if you prefer.
This package is free to use under the Elastic license. It contains open source and free commercial features and access to paid commercial features. Start a 30-day trial to try out all of the paid commercial features. See the Subscriptions page for information about Elastic license levels.
The latest stable version of Elasticsearch can be found on the Download Elasticsearch page. Other versions can be found on the Past Releases page.
Elasticsearch requires Java 8 or later. Use the official Oracle distribution or an open-source distribution such as OpenJDK.
Download the .msi
package
editDownload the .msi
package for Elasticsearch v6.5.4 from https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-6.5.4.msi
Install using the graphical user interface (GUI)
editDouble-click the downloaded .msi
package to launch a GUI wizard that will guide you through the
installation process. You can view help on any step by clicking the ?
button, which reveals an
aside panel with additional information for each input:

Within the first screen, select the directory for the installation. In addition, select directories for where data, logs and configuration will be placed or use the default locations:

Then select whether to install as a service or start Elasticsearch manually as needed. When installing as a service, you can also configure the Windows account to run the service with, whether the service should be started after installation and the Windows startup behaviour:

When selecting a Windows account to run the service with, be sure that the chosen account has sufficient privileges to access the installation and other deployment directories chosen. Also ensure the account is able to run Windows services.
Common configuration settings are exposed within the Configuration section, allowing the cluster name, node name and roles to be set, in addition to memory and network settings:

A list of common plugins that can be downloaded and installed as part of the installation, with the option to configure an HTTPS proxy through which to download these plugins.
Ensure the installation machine has access to the internet and that any corporate firewalls in place are configured to allow downloads from artifacts.elastic.co
:

As of version 6.3.0, X-Pack is now bundled by default. The final step allows a choice of the type of license to install, in addition to security configuration and built-in user configuration:

X-Pack includes a choice of a Trial or Basic license. A Trial license is valid for 30 days, after which you can obtain one of the available subscriptions. The Basic license is free and perpetual. Consult the available subscriptions for further details on which features are available under which license.
After clicking the install button, the installation will begin:

…and will indicate when it has been successfully installed:

Install using the command line
editThe .msi
can also install Elasticsearch using the command line. The simplest installation
using the same defaults as the GUI is achieved by first navigating to the download directory,
then running:
msiexec.exe /i elasticsearch-6.5.4.msi /qn
By default, msiexec.exe
does not wait for the installation process to complete, since it runs in the
Windows subsystem. To wait on the process to finish and ensure that %ERRORLEVEL%
is set
accordingly, it is recommended to use start /wait
to create a process and wait for it to exit
start /wait msiexec.exe /i elasticsearch-6.5.4.msi /qn
As with any MSI installation package, a log file for the installation process can be found
within the %TEMP%
directory, with a randomly generated name adhering to the format
MSI<random>.LOG
. The path to a log file can be supplied using the /l
command line argument
start /wait msiexec.exe /i elasticsearch-6.5.4.msi /qn /l install.log
Supported Windows Installer command line arguments can be viewed using
msiexec.exe /help
…or by consulting the Windows Installer SDK Command-Line Options.
Command line options
editAll settings exposed within the GUI are also available as command line arguments (referred to
as properties within Windows Installer documentation) that can be passed to msiexec.exe
:
|
The installation directory. The final directory in the path must
be the version of Elasticsearch.
Defaults to |
|
The directory in which to store your data.
Defaults to |
|
The directory in which to store your configuration.
Defaults to |
|
The directory in which to store your logs.
Defaults to |
|
Whether the data, configuration and logs directories
should be created under the installation directory. Defaults to |
|
Whether Elasticsearch is installed and configured as a Windows Service.
Defaults to |
|
Whether the Windows Service is started after installation finishes.
Defaults to |
|
Whether the Windows Service is started when Windows is started.
Defaults to |
|
Whether the Windows service runs under the LocalSystem Account.
Defaults to |
|
Whether the Windows service runs under the NetworkService Account. Defaults
to |
|
Whether the Windows service runs under a specified existing account. Defaults
to |
|
The username for the account under which the Windows service runs. Defaults to |
|
The password for the account under which the Windows service runs. Defaults to |
|
The name of the cluster. Defaults to |
|
The name of the node. Defaults to |
|
Whether Elasticsearch is configured as a master node. Defaults to |
|
Whether Elasticsearch is configured as a data node. Defaults to |
|
Whether Elasticsearch is configured as an ingest node. Defaults to |
|
The amount of memory to allocate to the JVM heap for Elasticsearch.
Defaults to |
|
Whether |
|
A comma separated list of hosts in the form |
|
The minimum number of master-eligible nodes that must be visible
in order to form a cluster. Defaults to |
|
The hostname or IP address to bind the node to and publish (advertise) this
host to other nodes in the cluster. Defaults to |
|
The port to use for exposing Elasticsearch APIs over HTTP. Defaults to |
|
The port to use for internal communication between nodes within the cluster.
Defaults to |
|
A comma separated list of the plugins to download and install as part of the
installation. Defaults to |
|
The proxy host to use to download plugins over HTTPS. Defaults to |
|
The proxy port to use to download plugins over HTTPS. Defaults to |
|
The proxy host to use to download plugins over HTTP. Defaults to |
|
The proxy port to use to download plugins over HTTP. Defaults to |
|
The type of license to install, either |
|
When installing with a |
|
When installing with a |
|
When installing with a |
|
When installing with a |
|
When installing with a |
|
When installing with a |
To pass a value, simply append the property name and value using the format
<PROPERTYNAME>="<VALUE>"
to the installation command. For example, to use a
different installation directory to the default one:
start /wait msiexec.exe /i elasticsearch-6.5.4.msi /qn INSTALLDIR="C:\Custom Install Directory{version}"
Consult the Windows Installer SDK Command-Line Options for additional rules related to values containing quotation marks.
Enable automatic creation of X-Pack indices
editThe Elastic Stack features try to automatically create a number of indices within Elasticsearch.
By default, Elasticsearch is configured to allow automatic index creation, and no
additional steps are required. However, if you have disabled automatic index
creation in Elasticsearch, you must configure
action.auto_create_index
in elasticsearch.yml
to allow
X-Pack to create the following indices:
action.auto_create_index: .monitoring*,.watches,.triggered_watches,.watcher-history*,.ml*
If you are using Logstash
or Beats then you will most likely
require additional index names in your action.auto_create_index
setting, and
the exact value will depend on your local configuration. If you are unsure of
the correct value for your environment, you may consider setting the value to
*
which will allow automatic creation of all indices.
Running Elasticsearch from the command line
editOnce installed, Elasticsearch can be started from the command line, if not installed as a service and configured to start when installation completes, as follows:
.\bin\elasticsearch.exe
The command line terminal will display output similar to the following:

By default, Elasticsearch runs in the foreground, prints its logs to STDOUT
in addition
to the <cluster name>.log
file within LOGSDIRECTORY
, and can be stopped by pressing Ctrl-C
.
Configuring Elasticsearch on the command line
editElasticsearch loads its configuration from the %ES_PATH_CONF%\elasticsearch.yml
file by default. The format of this config file is explained in
Configuring Elasticsearch.
Any settings that can be specified in the config file can also be specified on
the command line, using the -E
syntax as follows:
.\bin\elasticsearch.exe -E cluster.name=my_cluster -E node.name=node_1
Values that contain spaces must be surrounded with quotes. For instance -E path.logs="C:\My Logs\logs"
.
Typically, any cluster-wide settings (like cluster.name
) should be
added to the elasticsearch.yml
config file, while any node-specific settings
such as node.name
could be specified on the command line.
Checking that Elasticsearch is running
editYou can test that your Elasticsearch node is running by sending an HTTP
request to port 9200
on localhost
:
GET /
which should give you a response something like this:
{ "name" : "Cp8oag6", "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch", "cluster_uuid" : "AT69_T_DTp-1qgIJlatQqA", "version" : { "number" : "6.5.4", "build_flavor" : "default", "build_type" : "zip", "build_hash" : "f27399d", "build_date" : "2016-03-30T09:51:41.449Z", "build_snapshot" : false, "lucene_version" : "7.5.0", "minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "1.2.3", "minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "1.2.3" }, "tagline" : "You Know, for Search" }
Installing Elasticsearch as a Service on Windows
editElasticsearch can be installed as a service to run in the background or start automatically at boot time without any user interaction. This can be achieved upon installation using the following command line options
-
INSTALLASSERVICE=true
-
STARTAFTERINSTALL=true
-
STARTWHENWINDOWSSTARTS=true
Once installed, Elasticsearch will appear within the Services control panel:

and can be stopped and restarted from within the control panel, or from the command line using:
with Command Prompt:
sc.exe stop Elasticsearch sc.exe start Elasticsearch
with PowerShell:
Get-Service Elasticsearch | Stop-Service Get-Service Elasticsearch | Start-Service
Changes can be made to jvm.options
and elasticsearch.yml
configuration files to configure the
service after installation. Most changes (like JVM settings) will require a restart of the
service in order to take effect.
Upgrade using the graphical user interface (GUI)
editThe .msi
package supports upgrading an installed version of Elasticsearch to a newer
version. The upgrade process through the GUI handles upgrading all
installed plugins as well as retaining both your data and configuration.
Downloading and double-clicking on a newer version of the .msi
package will launch the GUI wizard.
The first step will list the read-only properties from the previous installation:

The next step allows certain configuration options to be changed:

Finally, the plugins step allows currently installed plugins to be upgraded or removed, and for plugins not currently installed, to be downloaded and installed:

Upgrade using the command line
editThe .msi
can also upgrade Elasticsearch using the command line.
A command line upgrade requires passing the same command line properties as used at first install time; the Windows Installer does not remember these properties.
For example, if you originally installed with the command line options PLUGINS="ingest-geoip"
and
LOCKMEMORY="true"
, then you must pass these same values when performing an
upgrade from the command line.
The exception to this is the INSTALLDIR
parameter (if originally specified), which must be a different directory to the
current installation.
If setting INSTALLDIR
, the final directory in the path must be the version of Elasticsearch e.g.
C:\Program Files\Elastic\Elasticsearch\6.5.4
The simplest upgrade, assuming Elasticsearch was installed using all defaults, is achieved by first navigating to the download directory, then running:
start /wait msiexec.exe /i elasticsearch-6.5.4.msi /qn
Similar to the install process, a path to a log file for the upgrade process can
be passed using the /l
command line argument
start /wait msiexec.exe /i elasticsearch-6.5.4.msi /qn /l upgrade.log
Uninstall using Add/Remove Programs
editThe .msi
package handles uninstallation of all directories and files added as part of installation.
Uninstallation will remove all contents created as part of installation, except for data, config or logs directories. It is recommended that you make a copy of your data directory before upgrading or consider using the snapshot API.
MSI installer packages do not provide a GUI for uninstallation. An installed program can be uninstalled
by pressing the Windows key and typing add or remove programs
to open the system settings.
Once opened, find the Elasticsearch installation within the list of installed applications, click
and choose Uninstall
:

This will launch the uninstallation process.
Uninstall using the command line
editUninstallation can also be performed from the command line by navigating to the directory
containing the .msi
package and running:
start /wait msiexec.exe /x elasticsearch-6.5.4.msi /qn
Similar to the install process, a path to a log file for the uninstallation process can
be passed using the /l
command line argument
start /wait msiexec.exe /x elasticsearch-6.5.4.msi /qn /l uninstall.log
Next steps
editYou now have a test Elasticsearch environment set up. Before you start serious development or go into production with Elasticsearch, you must do some additional setup:
- Learn how to configure Elasticsearch.
- Configure important Elasticsearch settings.
- Configure important system settings.
On this page
- Download the
.msi
package - Install using the graphical user interface (GUI)
- Install using the command line
- Command line options
- Enable automatic creation of X-Pack indices
- Running Elasticsearch from the command line
- Configuring Elasticsearch on the command line
- Checking that Elasticsearch is running
- Installing Elasticsearch as a Service on Windows
- Upgrade using the graphical user interface (GUI)
- Upgrade using the command line
- Uninstall using Add/Remove Programs
- Uninstall using the command line
- Next steps