Is it possible to start Elasticsearch in the foreground in Windows?

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Hi all,

As the title asks, is it possible to start Elasticsearch in the foreground in Windows? I have Elasticsearch running as a service on a non standard port on my workstation, and I occasionally need to look into datasets from other servers. Can I start Elasticsearch with some command line parameters to specify a port to bind to, and a data folder/cluster name to use?

Everything I found in the docs involved installing Elasticsearch as a service, which I would like to avoid if possible.

Thank you!

Danny

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Yes, you can. Just use the bin/elasticsearch.bat script that is provided with the archive distributions. The command line parameters you're looking for are covered in the docs (look for network.host, http.port, transport.tcp.port, path.data, and cluster.name).

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Excellent, thanks @jasontedor for pointing me in the right direction!

Cheers!

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You're very welcome.