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Add Elasticsearch user settings

ECE

Change how Elasticsearch runs by providing your own user settings. User settings are appended to the elasticsearch.yml configuration file for your cluster and provide custom configuration options. Elastic Cloud Enterprise supports many of the user settings for the version of Elasticsearch that your cluster is running.

Note

ECE blocks the configuration of certain settings that could break your cluster if misconfigured, including some zen discovery and security settings. For a list of settings that are generally safe in cloud environments, refer to the Elasticsearch configuration reference.

To change Elasticsearch user settings:

  1. Log into the Cloud UI.

  2. On the Deployments page, select your deployment.

    Narrow the list by name, ID, or choose from several other filters. To further define the list, use a combination of filters.

  3. From your deployment menu, go to the Edit page.

  4. In the Elasticsearch section, select Manage user settings and extensions. For deployments with existing user settings, you may have to expand the User setting overrides caret for each node type instead.

  5. Update the user settings.

  6. Select Save changes.

    Warning

    If you encounter the Edit elasticsearch.yml carets, be sure to make your changes on all Elasticsearch node types.

You can configure email notifications to Gmail for a user that you specify. For details, refer to Configuring email actions.

Important

Before you add the xpack.notification.email* setting in Elasticsearch user settings, make sure you add the account SMTP password to the keystore as a secret value.