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Elasticsearch Service Documentation

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• Elasticsearch Service - Hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana: release-ms-21 (current)saas-releasesaas-release-heroku
• Getting started
  • How do I sign up?
  • Create your deployment
    • What are deployment templates?
    • I/O optimized template
    • Compute optimized template
    • Memory optimized template
    • Cross-cluster search template
    • Hot-warm architecture template
    • Customize your deployment
    • Configure index management
  • Access Kibana
  • Connect to Elasticsearch
  • Access the Elasticsearch API
  • Next steps
  • Dashboards included with Elasticsearch Service
  • Migrating your Elasticsearch data
  • Basic terms
• Configuring Elasticsearch Service
  • Plan for production
  • Configure your deployment
    • What deployment settings are available?
  • Add plugins
    • Add plugins provided with Elasticsearch Service
    • Upload custom plugins, dictionaries, and scripts
  • Edit your user settings
    • Add Elasticsearch user settings
    • Add Kibana user settings
    • Add APM user settings
  • Migrate deployment templates
  • Configure Beats and Logstash with Cloud ID
    • Configure Beats (without Cloud ID)
    • Configure Logstash (without Cloud ID)
  • Enable Kibana
  • Enable Monitoring (formerly Marvel)
  • Enable Alerting (Watcher)
  • Enable cross-cluster search
  • Upgrade versions
    • Best practices for major version upgrades
    • Upgrade to Elasticsearch 7.x
    • Upgrade to Elasticsearch 6.x
    • Upgrade to Elasticsearch 5.x
  • Delete your deployment
  • Elasticsearch transport module (Deprecated)
    • Configuring an API key
    • Example configuration
• Securing your deployment
  • Reset the elastic user password
  • Version 5.0 and later, manage users and roles in X-Pack
  • Before Version 5.0, manage users and roles in Shield
  • Configure the Java transport client
  • Sanitize requests
  • Tunneling SSL: When your client supports only HTTP
  • Secure your settings
  • Secure your clusters with SAML
    • Sign Outgoing SAML Message
• Keeping your cluster healthy
  • Scenario: Why is performance degrading over time?
  • Scenario: Is my cluster really highly available?
  • Scenario: How does high memory pressure affect performance?
  • Scenario: Why are my cluster response times suddenly so much worse?
  • Memory pressure indicator
• Snapshot and restore
  • Restoring snapshots
  • Snapshot and restore with custom repositories
    • Configure a snapshot repository using AWS
    • Configure a snapshot repository using GCS
• Your account and billing
  • Add a credit card
  • Enable multi-factor authentication
  • See your account activity
  • See your billing history
  • Change your password for Elasticsearch Service
  • Change the primary email address for an account
  • Update billing and operational contacts
  • Stop charges for a deployment
  • AWS Marketplace billing
• About Elasticsearch Service
  • Subscription levels
  • Version policy
  • Elasticsearch Service hardware
  • Elasticsearch Service Regions
  • Elasticsearch Service FAQ
  • Service status
  • Getting help
• Release notes
  • GCS support and private subscription
  • Elastic Stack 6.8 and 7.1
  • ILM and hot-warm architecture
  • Elasticsearch keystore and more
  • Trial capacity and more
  • APM Servers and more
  • Snapshot retention period and more
  • Improvements and snapshot intervals
  • SAML and multi-factor authentication
  • Next generation of Elasticsearch Service
  • Branding update
  • Minor Console updates
  • New Cloud Console
  • Restrictions and known problems
• What’s new with the Elastic Stack
  • Elastic Stack 7.1.1 released
  • Elastic Stack 7.1.0 released
  • Elastic Stack 7.0.1 released
  • Elastic Stack 7.0.0 released
  • Elastic Stack 6.8.1 released
  • Elastic Stack 6.8.0 released
  • Elastic Stack 6.7.2 released
  • Elastic Stack 6.7.1 released
  • Elastic Stack 6.7.0 released
  • Elastic Stack 6.6.2 released
  • Elastic Stack 6.6.0 released
  • Elastic Stack 6.5.4 released
  • Elastic Stack 5.6.14 and 6.5.3 released
  • Elastic Stack 6.5.2 released
  • Elastic Stack 6.5.1 released
  • Elastic Stack 6.5.0 released
  • Elastic Stack 5.6.13 and 6.4.3 released
  • Elastic Stack 5.6.11 and 6.4.0 released
  • Elastic Stack 6.3.2 released
  • Elastic Stack 6.3.1 released
  • Known issue affecting 5.6.10 to 6.3.0 upgrades
  • Elastic Stack 5.6.10 and 6.3.0 released

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Getting Started Videos

• Starting Elasticsearch
• Introduction to Kibana
• Logstash Starter Guide