Elasticsearch configuration reference
ECE Elastic Cloud Hosted Self Managed Serverless
This section provides detailed reference information for Elasticsearch configuration.
Refer to Elasticsearch configuration in the Deploy and manage section for overview, getting started and conceptual information.
Configuration settings enable you to customize the behavior of Elasticsearch features. This reference provides details about each setting, such as its purpose, default behavior, and availability in Elastic Cloud environments.
For details on updating user settings, see Edit Elastic Stack settings for Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments, Add Elasticsearch user settings for Elastic Cloud Enterprise deployments and Differences from other Elasticsearch offerings for Serverless.
The settings are grouped by feature or purpose, for example:
- Auditing
- Circuit breaker
- Cluster formation and discovery
- Cross-cluster replication
- Data stream lifecycle
- Enrich settings
- Field data cache
- Health diagnostic
- Index lifecycle management,
- Index management
- Index recovery
- Index buffer
- Inference
- License
- Local gateway
- Machine learning
- Monitoring
- Networking
- Nodes
- Node query cache
- Search
- Security
- Shard request cache
- Shard routing
- Snapshot and restore
- Transforms
- Thread pools
- Watcher