# Elasticsearch Administration Questions

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-administration-questions/6675>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 10, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-administration-questions/6675 "2012-02-10T18:42:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Chris\_H](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_H)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-administration-questions/6675/1 "2012-02-10T18:42:16Z")

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I'm looking for information on how to properly administer an  
Elasticsearch cluster. We are evaluating it's use at my company, but  
I have not been able to really find any information on how it is  
administered. Can someone please point me to any documentation or  
other information on administration.

Specifically, I'm concerned about:

1. Backups and Restores
2. Performance Tuning
3. Best Practices
4. Settings Documentation

Thanks for any assistance in this matter.

Chris

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**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-administration-questions/6675/2 "2012-02-11T04:15:08Z")

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Hello Chris,

I'll do my best inline.

On Feb 10, 1:42 pm, "Chris H." [revo...@gmail.com](mailto:revo...@gmail.com) wrote:

> I'm looking for information on how to properly administer an  
> Elasticsearch cluster. We are evaluating it's use at my company, but  
> I have not been able to really find any information on how it is  
> administered. Can someone please point me to any documentation or  
> other information on administration.
> 
> Specifically, I'm concerned about:
> 
> 1. Backups and Restores

Look at the docs about gateway. Also, replicas are useful for  
protecting you from sporadic node failures and data loss.

> 1. Performance Tuning

There is a lot of stuff that can affect performance at both indexing  
and searching end, so it's hard to have a single place where all this  
"wisdom" is well documented. When performance problems start it's  
best to turn to this list or, if your company needs something more  
official, you can turn to organizations that know (elastic)search and  
can help.

> 1. Best Practices

Similar to the above. You could learn a lot by reading Lucene in  
Action or one of the Solr books - a lot of the same core ideas apply  
to Elasticsearch, though of course there is ES-specific stuff one  
needs to know on top of that. Again, similarly to the above - support  
via ML or via paid tech support subscriptions.

> 1. Settings Documentation

The Guide on [elasticsearch.org](http://elasticsearch.org) is currently the best/only  
documentation there is.

> Thanks for any assistance in this matter.

## Otis

Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)  
Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm//index.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-administration-questions/6675/3 "2017-07-06T03:39:53Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:39am UTC