How to install Elastic Search
This is my first blog as a part of ELK stack series. As the first blog in this series, I’ll showing how to install Elastic Search, configure it, Start the service and get a response from it.
Pre Requisites
Elasticsearch is built using Java, and includes a bundled version of OpenJDK within each distribution. So make sure java is already installed on the machine.
Installation
Easy, Search for Install Elastic Search and go with the first link you see. Here is what comes today from elastic, the company behind this service. Depending on your platform, download the .gz or .deb or .zip file.
Installation on Windows
Well, its simple and Hard.
Simple: Extract the zip file.
Hard: Wait forever for the extraction to complete or at least as on today. I strongly recommend you to do the extraction when you can afford few hours of downtime or away time from your machine.
Set the path
Copy the path where the file is extracted (Example path below) and map it to an new system or user variable.
| Key | Value |
| |
| ES_JAVA_HOME | C:\somepath\elasticsearch\elasticsearch-8.15.2\jdk |
Update config
Navigate to elasticsearch\elasticsearch-8.15.2\config
Open elasticsearch.yml file in your fav editor
Uncomment & change the details as below.
cluster.name: my-test-application
node.name: windows-node-1
network.host: 127.0.0.1
cluster.initial_master_nodes: ["windows-node-1"]
xpack.security.enabled: false
Install Elastic Search
Open Power shell as an Admin
Navigate to bin folder under elastic search as shown below and
Run the command as shown below
c:\elasticsearch\elasticsearch-8.15.2\bin> .\elasticsearch-service.bat install ElasticSearch
After successful installation, run services.msc and look for elasticsearch-8.15.2 and start the service.
- If you make any changes to the config, remember to restart the service.
Testing
To ensure Elastic Search is successfully installed, open your fav browser and hit the below url http://127.0.0.1:9200 or you can also curl this url from a terminal.
Have Fun with Elastic!
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