Restart elasticsearch daemon necessarily?

pauldon2 · October 13, 2018, 5:12pm

Is it possible to force elasticsearch to change the configuration without restarting the service?

jasontedor · October 13, 2018, 7:27pm

No, this is not possible. Changes to the Elasticsearch configuration file are not picked up without a restart of the process.

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