Systemctl reload elasticsearch.service or systemctl restart elasticsearch.service

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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Hi all,

I am currently working on a bash script. Whenever i make changes to elasticsearch.yml file, should i perform systemctl reload elascticsearch.service or systemctl restart elasticsearch.service?

Any difference between performing either both?

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Welcome to our community! :smiley:

You will probably need to do a restart, Elasticsearch won't dynamically reload the config file, it needs to restart to read it again.