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Plugin management
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Managing plugins on Elasticsearch Serviceedit
Refer to the Elasticsearch Service documentation for information about managing plugins on Elastic Cloud.
Managing plugins for self-managed deploymentsedit
Use the elasticsearch-plugin
command line tool to install, list, and remove plugins. It is
located in the $ES_HOME/bin
directory by default but it may be in a
different location depending on which Elasticsearch package you installed:
Run the following command to get usage instructions:
sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin -h
Running as root
If Elasticsearch was installed using the deb or rpm package then run
/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin
as root
so it can write to the appropriate files on disk.
Otherwise run bin/elasticsearch-plugin
as the user that owns all of the Elasticsearch
files.
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If you run Elasticsearch using Docker, you can manage plugins using a configuration file.