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## [Where is bootstrap password stored?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-is-bootstrap-password-stored/185323)

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**Author:** [@Meet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Meet)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 21, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-is-bootstrap-password-stored/185323 "2019-06-21T18:47:35Z")

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Is there any way I can change it except for using bin/elasticsearch-setup or curl command?

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## [Enabling encrypted indexes](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-encrypted-indexes/12191)

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**Author:** [@Mattijs\_Ugen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mattijs_Ugen)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 6, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-encrypted-indexes/12191 "2013-11-06T14:33:18Z")

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Friends, I've been trying to get elasticsearch to store indexes in an encrypted format. I know people have opted it here, but using full disk encryption is not a solution for me. The only place where the informat…

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## ["key:value" searches](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/key-value-searches/7351)

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**Author:** [@Shane\_Witbeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shane_Witbeck)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 16, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/key-value-searches/7351 "2012-04-16T16:58:05Z")

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I've noticed that searches for documents that contain a string such as key:value return unwanted results. For example, a search on: "key\\:value" returns results that include key AND value (eg. "key-value") but no…

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## [Unable to write index pattern! Refresh the page to get the most up to date changes for this index pattern](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-write-index-pattern-refresh-the-page-to-get-the-most-up-to-date-changes-for-this-index-pattern/164535)

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**Author:** [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 22, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-write-index-pattern-refresh-the-page-to-get-the-most-up-to-date-changes-for-this-index-pattern/164535 "2019-01-22T17:35:14Z")

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Hello, I'm using Kibana 6.5.4 and sometimes I get following message through Discover: Unable to write index pattern! Refresh the page to get the most up to date changes for this index pattern. needless to say, I ref…

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## [Deploy elasticsearch role based security using helm charts](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploy-elasticsearch-role-based-security-using-helm-charts/236496)

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**Author:** [@a3984](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a3984)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploy-elasticsearch-role-based-security-using-helm-charts/236496 "2020-06-10T14:47:11Z")

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I am trying to configure elasticsearch in our kubernetes cluster using helm charts and values.yaml as we use Azure DevOps pipelines for our deployment strategy into Azure Kubernetes clusters. However, I am struggling to…

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## [Read\_only\_allow\_delete always set on true](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-only-allow-delete-always-set-on-true/114610)

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**Author:** [@PerseiX](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PerseiX)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 8, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-only-allow-delete-always-set-on-true/114610 "2018-01-08T20:23:31Z")

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Hello, I have problem { "error": { "root\_cause": \[ { "type": "cluster\_block\_exception", "reason": "blocked by: \[FORBIDDEN/12/index read-only / allow delete (api)\];" } \], "type": "cluster\_block\_exception", "rea…

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## [How does batch size effect performance in bulk indexing?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-batch-size-effect-performance-in-bulk-indexing/55921)

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**Author:** [@eugene\_miretsky](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eugene_miretsky)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 19, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-batch-size-effect-performance-in-bulk-indexing/55921 "2016-07-19T19:57:03Z")

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Some blogs suggest to tune the batch size for each batch to take ~1s. Why is that?

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## [Getting problems in install Watcher](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-problems-in-install-watcher/1253)

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**Author:** [@reli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/reli)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [May 26, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-problems-in-install-watcher/1253 "2015-05-26T12:24:09Z")

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I install Watcher as i see in the "getting-started" docs, bin/plugin -i elasticsearch/watcher/my\_key and service elasticsearch restart I get the following error "elasticsearch dead but subsys locked" and nothing wo…

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## [Attempted to resurrect connection to dead ES instance, but got an error... Received fatal alert: bad\_certificate"}](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attempted-to-resurrect-connection-to-dead-es-instance-but-got-an-error-received-fatal-alert-bad-certificate/294708)

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**Author:** [@Adriann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adriann)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 20, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attempted-to-resurrect-connection-to-dead-es-instance-but-got-an-error-received-fatal-alert-bad-certificate/294708 "2022-01-20T15:19:05Z")

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Hello, I wanted to run the old logstash config that once was working. It is not working anymore I guess that because now Elasticsearch is set up with xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate Logsta…

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## [Performance Windows x Linux](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-windows-x-linux/136685)

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**Author:** [@Marcos\_Felix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcos_Felix)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 20, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-windows-x-linux/136685 "2018-06-20T17:57:23Z")

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Is there any performance differences between Windows and Linux? Will ELK operate the same across different OS? Also.... I saw that ELK is free of cost, are we given a certain amount of memory? what do we do if we want t…

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## [Dedicated master nodes in Elasticsearch 2.0](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-master-nodes-in-elasticsearch-2-0/33485)

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**Author:** [@philips](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/philips)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2015, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-master-nodes-in-elasticsearch-2-0/33485 "2015-11-02T07:45:22Z")

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Prior to elasticsearch 2.0, you have to specify node.data = false and node.master = true to set dedicated master nodes. (Refer to this documentation) However, based on this documentation, node.master setting is no longe…

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## [How many queries per second my server can handle?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-queries-per-second-my-server-can-handle/150477)

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**Author:** [@Shrimp-Fried-Rice](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shrimp-Fried-Rice)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 1, 2018, 2:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-queries-per-second-my-server-can-handle/150477 "2018-10-01T02:01:03Z")

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hi, i have dedicated server with 128 gigs of RAM, acting as a single node cluster Dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2620 V1 & 2 × 4TB HDD server is being used for nginx,php,mysql and elasticsearch java heap memory is set to 15 GB …

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## [Error Bundler::HTTPError, - what am I missing?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-bundler-httperror-what-am-i-missing/24107)

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**Author:** [@rmckeown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rmckeown)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 23, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-bundler-httperror-what-am-i-missing/24107 "2015-06-23T19:26:16Z")

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I am attempting to install a custom plugin from a gem. This works fine when I do the install on an environment connected to the internet. However, on an environment not so connected, I get the following after plugin…

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## [RestHighLevelClient slow performance](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/resthighlevelclient-slow-performance/182746)

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**Author:** [@eugene\_p](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eugene_p)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 26, 2019, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/resthighlevelclient-slow-performance/182746 "2019-05-26T08:04:58Z")

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Hi everyone. I noticed that requests executed through RestHighLevelClient slower 6 times than the same requests executed through curl or Postman. So I configure the RestHighLevelClient: @Bean fun restHighLevelClient()…

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## [What if dedicated master node goes down and another node takes over as master?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-if-dedicated-master-node-goes-down-and-another-node-takes-over-as-master/235334)

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**Author:** [@jasonperrone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jasonperrone)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 2, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-if-dedicated-master-node-goes-down-and-another-node-takes-over-as-master/235334 "2020-06-02T15:31:49Z")

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So, I have a three node cluster. Each of the nodes are master eligible, data nodes and ingest nodes. I did that because, well, I only have three nodes. But I am thinking, do I really need my indices replicated in three …

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## [Indexes and time to keep information](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-and-time-to-keep-information/72278)

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**Author:** [@cachito](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cachito)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 23, 2017, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-and-time-to-keep-information/72278 "2017-01-23T10:02:46Z")

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Hi I am storing a lot of logs from an cloud application (architecture logs, application logs and syslogs) on Elasticsearch. My idea was to keep -at least- logs of last 30 days on Elasticsearch to allow analysis on a…

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## [Can I update/delete/get/index multiple data on PHP client at once?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-update-delete-get-index-multiple-data-on-php-client-at-once/70108)

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**Author:** [@tanimoto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanimoto)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [December 28, 2016, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-update-delete-get-index-multiple-data-on-php-client-at-once/70108 "2016-12-28T10:33:00Z")

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my php file is as below. \<?php require\_once '/usr/local/bin/composer/vendor/autoload.php'; $host = \["http://localhost:9200"\]; $client = Elasticsearch\\ClientBuilder::create()-\>setHosts($host)-\>build();…

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## [Latest timestamp in lens table?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/latest-timestamp-in-lens-table/305333)

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**Author:** [@David\_Hodgson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_Hodgson)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 23, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/latest-timestamp-in-lens-table/305333 "2022-05-23T15:11:44Z")

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I'm trying to create a Lens table in a Dashboard summarising heartbeats, with columns: monitor.name, monitor.status, last\_value(@timestamp, kql='monitor.status:"up"'), last\_value(@timestamp, kql='monitor.status:"down"'…

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## [What are the main functional differences between Kibana 3 and Kibana 4?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-main-functional-differences-between-kibana-3-and-kibana-4/69)

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**Author:** [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 1, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-main-functional-differences-between-kibana-3-and-kibana-4/69 "2015-06-01T16:37:55Z")

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The following are some of the main improvements in Kibana 4: New look and feel; charting based on D3 Improved workflows New unified visualization builderUnlike Kibana 3, we split out chart creation and dashboard layou…

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## [Adding a new translation to Kibana and distribute it](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-a-new-translation-to-kibana-and-distribute-it/287185)

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**Author:** [@nkatsaounos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nkatsaounos)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 4, 2021, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-a-new-translation-to-kibana-and-distribute-it/287185 "2021-11-04T08:52:05Z")

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Hello, I have started localization Kibana to greek language. I made my experiments in an Ubuntu20.04 system. I made the following changes after cloning development code from kibana repo: extracted en.json file via no…

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## [Using javaagent in Docker container](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-javaagent-in-docker-container/272223)

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**Author:** [@Henk\_Stobbe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Henk_Stobbe)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [May 15, 2021, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-javaagent-in-docker-container/272223 "2021-05-15T09:08:07Z")

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Hello, Using docker compose, I have a added a volume (containing the agent jar) and I added the java opts to point to this jar. Sorry to say that when the java application gets started the volume is not yet available a…

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## [Hosts duplicated with and without fqdn](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hosts-duplicated-with-and-without-fqdn/238546)

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**Author:** [@Christian\_SANCHEZ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_SANCHEZ)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hosts-duplicated-with-and-without-fqdn/238546 "2020-06-30T12:28:47Z")

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Hi I have 7.8 beats installed on Windows servers (audit, metric, file and winlog). They all push events directly to ES In the SIEM, i see my hosts duplicated : once with simple name, once with fqdn It seems winlogbea…

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## [Sudden deletion of data](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudden-deletion-of-data/124598)

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**Author:** [@n1im](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/n1im)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 20, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudden-deletion-of-data/124598 "2018-03-20T09:49:38Z")

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Elasticsearch version : 5.6.8 Plugins installed: \[\] No plugins JVM version (java -version): 8 OS version (uname -a if on a Unix-like system): Linux Centos 7 Description of the problem including expected versus actual…

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## [Best Practices for Efficient and Effective Log Storage and Retrieval with Elasticsearch and Logstash?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practices-for-efficient-and-effective-log-storage-and-retrieval-with-elasticsearch-and-logstash/327904)

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**Author:** [@LongKang\_Fan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LongKang_Fan)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [March 17, 2023, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practices-for-efficient-and-effective-log-storage-and-retrieval-with-elasticsearch-and-logstash/327904 "2023-03-17T09:28:48Z")

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Hello, I am currently working with Elasticsearch to store our log files. I have followed all the necessary steps (Filebeat -\> Logstash -\> Elasticsearch) and I am ready to deploy the system for testing before deploying i…

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## [Filebeat exclude\_files is not working as expected](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-exclude-files-is-not-working-as-expected/305995)

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**Author:** [@omeryosef](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/omeryosef)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 2, 2022, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-exclude-files-is-not-working-as-expected/305995 "2022-06-02T09:29:58Z")

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Hi everyone, I have the following structure of directories and I am trying to avoid duplications by excluding "current" dir: # ls -l total 12 drwxrwxr-x 11 node node 4096 May 25 10:42 3.123.0 drwxrwxr-x 11 node node 40…

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## [Easiest way to add button in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easiest-way-to-add-button-in-kibana/115453)

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**Author:** [@romanc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/romanc)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 16, 2018, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easiest-way-to-add-button-in-kibana/115453 "2018-01-16T08:09:25Z")

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I am trying to do the following: have a table of documents (like data table or serach table visualization on dashboard) every row should have a button to insert text (comments) to the document when user clicks on the b…

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## [Convert SearchSourceBuilder to Json](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-searchsourcebuilder-to-json/156118)

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**Author:** [@deepak643](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/deepak643)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 10, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-searchsourcebuilder-to-json/156118 "2018-11-10T18:19:33Z")

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Hi all, May be this question was asked before See actual JSON from SearchRequestBuilder but I am completely new to the elastic search. I am trying to find a way to convert the queryBuilder/searchSourceBuilder to a Json…

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## [Elasticsearch doc update fails with illegal\_argument\_exception](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-doc-update-fails-with-illegal-argument-exception/127262)

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**Author:** [@rgaduput](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rgaduput)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 9, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-doc-update-fails-with-illegal-argument-exception/127262 "2018-04-09T13:10:49Z")

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Hi, We are updating Elastic document using ES python client, and facing below issue during the update. TransportError(400, u'illegal\_argument\_exception', u'\[93f58351-0db1-423e-ae5c-ebb1c3dea103\]\[172.17.0.2:9300\]\[indice…

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## [LogStash - Add properties in the logback and send them to Logstash](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-add-properties-in-the-logback-and-send-them-to-logstash/70172)

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**Author:** [@AleGallagher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AleGallagher)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 31, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-add-properties-in-the-logback-and-send-them-to-logstash/70172 "2016-12-31T13:18:36Z")

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I'm using Logback and Logstash in a SpringBoot application. In the logback.xml I have a property with the name of the service, and is like: configuration\> include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/de…

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## [Wait for relocating shards](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wait-for-relocating-shards/10546)

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**Author:** [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [February 4, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wait-for-relocating-shards/10546 "2013-02-04T21:56:34Z")

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The ClusterHealthRequest allows one to wait for a specified number of relocating shards. Would it be possible to extend the class to wait for all relocating shards? Currently, I need to make one request to get the numb…

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## [Can't create index](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-create-index/10610)

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**Author:** [@Dong\_Aihua](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dong_Aihua)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2013, 10:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-create-index/10610 "2013-02-05T10:10:20Z")

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Hi, guys: These days we met a very strange thing. We can't create index in the cluster. Once we inserted a simple doc, the cluster will become red and new created index are showed unassigned. Does anyone know how…

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## [Elasticsearch service fails immediately after start](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-service-fails-immediately-after-start/116885)

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**Author:** [@ivan\_p](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ivan_p)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [January 30, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-service-fails-immediately-after-start/116885 "2018-01-30T11:17:10Z")

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Hi folks, The title describes the essense of my problem pretty much. I'm running ES 5.5.2 on a VM with Ubuntu 16.04 (it's VirtualBox 5.2.6). All files in the /var/log/elasticsearch directory are empty. journalctl -u e…

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## [Elsticsearch5.6.\*:\_id is not configurable](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elsticsearch5-6-id-is-not-configurable/115496)

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**Author:** [@xiaoxiami](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xiaoxiami)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 15, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elsticsearch5-6-id-is-not-configurable/115496 "2018-01-15T09:25:45Z")

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Hi,all It told me "\_id is not configurable" when i ceate index by assign \_id mapping mainkey od the source. create index statement is curl -X PUT localhost:9200/test { "settings" : { "number\_of\_shards" : 1, "numb…

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## [Logstash File output plugin - IOError: No space left on device](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-file-output-plugin-ioerror-no-space-left-on-device/97206)

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**Author:** [@turnerj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/turnerj)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 16, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-file-output-plugin-ioerror-no-space-left-on-device/97206 "2017-08-16T08:16:48Z")

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Hi I am running a Logstash 5.1.1 instance collecting and parsing syslogs. Output plugins are a combination of exec, sending syslog data to an executable, elasticsearch, and file, writing formatted output to a text file.…

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## [Use regex in path definition](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-regex-in-path-definition/71201)

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**Author:** [@dwjvaughan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dwjvaughan)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 11, 2017, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-regex-in-path-definition/71201 "2017-01-11T10:46:16Z")

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Is it possible to use regex when defining the path? I see the documentation states it uses Golang Glob which seems to indicate that it's possible, but I can't seem to get it to work. I have the following: filebeat.p…

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## [JDBC River - outside valid range for the datatype INTEGER](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jdbc-river-outside-valid-range-for-the-datatype-integer/14500)

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**Author:** [@Justin\_Doles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Justin_Doles)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 22, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jdbc-river-outside-valid-range-for-the-datatype-integer/14500 "2013-11-22T16:43:35Z")

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I'm struggling to figure out what I'm missing here. I'm new to both ES and the JDBC river plugin. I've been able to create basic rivers from MySQL with no issue. But when I get to a relatively large table (~74 mil…

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## [Creating index on monthly basis](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-index-on-monthly-basis/274762)

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**Author:** [@Gourav\_Aggarwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gourav_Aggarwal)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 9, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-index-on-monthly-basis/274762 "2021-06-09T15:18:23Z")

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Is there any way by which we can create index named \<prefix\>-yyyy.mm on the first day of every month and getting the alias pointed to this newly created index? I learned about date time but that changes the name only wh…

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## [Unable to create snapshot repository](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-snapshot-repository/210544)

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**Author:** [@Joseph\_Raj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joseph_Raj)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [December 11, 2019, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-snapshot-repository/210544 "2019-12-11T07:41:55Z")

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As im in process of backup of cluster, so i tried to create repository under specific location by adding the below line in elasticsearch.yml path.repo: \["/mount/backups"\] After adding the line, i have restarted the n…

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## [Kibana 6.1.1 Fatal Error at start](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-1-1-fatal-error-at-start/112986)

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**Author:** [@fragatina](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fragatina)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [January 2, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-1-1-fatal-error-at-start/112986 "2018-01-02T18:15:24Z")

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I've updated to latest Elasticsearch/Kibana to 6.1.1 and go the following Fatal error in Kibana (which prevents to display anything else besides the following error in the browser). I don't have any customized plugins in…

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## [Jvm.options missing while installing elasticsearch-oss](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-options-missing-while-installing-elasticsearch-oss/254158)

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**Author:** [@Haptomai](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Haptomai)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [November 4, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-options-missing-while-installing-elasticsearch-oss/254158 "2020-11-04T08:43:55Z")

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Hi fellows, No docker version involved here Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS v7.9.1 OpenJDK 11.0.5 Yesterday I tried to switch from ELK Basic stack to OSS stack in order to use OpenDistro. I removed elasticsearch, kibana and logst…

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## [Elasticsearch crashed after start](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-crashed-after-start/23384)

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**Author:** [@Ann\_Yablunovskaya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ann_Yablunovskaya)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-crashed-after-start/23384 "2015-04-24T13:30:21Z")

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Hi! I don't understand, what happend. OS CentOS 7.1 I have ES cluster with two servers. It have the same configuration. I tried to configure shield and marvel but my second ES instanse have suddenly crashed. …

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## [Cold data node search performance](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cold-data-node-search-performance/130844)

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**Author:** [@farin99](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/farin99)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [May 8, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cold-data-node-search-performance/130844 "2018-05-08T08:37:16Z")

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Hi, We are wondering regarding our search performance in our cold data nodes. We have a use case of searching a week which is built of 7 indexes (index per day) each index has 38 shards 22GB each. The query timeout aft…

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## [LockObtainFailedException in ES](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lockobtainfailedexception-in-es/84252)

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**Author:** [@pran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pran)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [May 5, 2017, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lockobtainfailedexception-in-es/84252 "2017-05-05T04:50:34Z")

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Hi, We have a cluster with 16 nodes. Each node is Data and Master Node. We have ES version 2.4. Recently, we have started getting the following error: \[2017-05-01 23:28:04,221\]\[WARN \]\[cluster.action.shard \] \[servern…

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## [Timestamp processor truncates timestamp and fails to parse](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-processor-truncates-timestamp-and-fails-to-parse/267190)

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**Author:** [@6NMgfDwZ3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/6NMgfDwZ3)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [March 17, 2021, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-processor-truncates-timestamp-and-fails-to-parse/267190 "2021-03-17T03:09:00Z")

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Hello, I have log messages with a mytimesmap field. This field contains microseconds precision RFC3339/ISO8601 (UTC) style timestamp like 2021-03-14T13:25:49.008906Z. So I'd like to overwrite @timestamp field with myti…

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## [How Can I set USer Security to Only view a dashboard](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-set-user-security-to-only-view-a-dashboard/83448)

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**Author:** [@ppierce01](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppierce01)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 26, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-set-user-security-to-only-view-a-dashboard/83448 "2017-04-26T17:09:12Z")

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I have create a couple of Dashboards and now I want to create a user that is allowed to view these dashboards. I want the user to be able to change the date range on the search as well as filter the data using the searc…

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## [Using RAID 0 vs multiple data paths after commit #10461](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-raid-0-vs-multiple-data-paths-after-commit-10461/855)

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**Author:** [@slee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/slee)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 19, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-raid-0-vs-multiple-data-paths-after-commit-10461/855 "2015-05-19T12:39:14Z")

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Hello all, I posted this in the Google mailing list, but I'd thought I'd ask here as well. I currently have 2 servers, each with 128GB RAM and 2 HDDs in a RAID 1, and 10 SDDs. I was instructed to create a ELK stack o…

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## [Error about script\_lang not supported](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-about-script-lang-not-supported/28535)

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**Author:** [@Cristi\_Boariu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cristi_Boariu)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-about-script-lang-not-supported/28535 "2015-09-02T16:12:38Z")

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I am using elastic search 1.5.2. When running this query from JAVA: { "fields" : "\_source", "script\_fields" : { "distance" : { "script" : "doc\['location.pin'\].empty? 0 : doc\['location.pin'\].distanceInMi…

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## [Shield "index not found exception"](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-index-not-found-exception/39011)

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**Author:** [@avibh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/avibh)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 1, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-index-not-found-exception/39011 "2016-06-01T13:07:46Z")

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Hi, when calling search on an empty ES there's a different behavior if shield is enabled or not - no shield - no exception with shield - an "index not found" exception is thrown. off course the empty ES is just an ea…

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## [WildcardQuery and case sensitivity](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcardquery-and-case-sensitivity/5806)

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**Author:** [@Manish\_Pandit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Manish_Pandit)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [November 9, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcardquery-and-case-sensitivity/5806 "2011-11-09T15:32:21Z")

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Hi, I wanted to know if the wildcardQueries are case sensitive - I have an un-analyzed field which I am querying using a wildcardQuery, but for some reason not getting any results when I change the case of the sear…

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## [PostMan query vs Kibana Query](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/postman-query-vs-kibana-query/128613)

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**Author:** [@naveenchitluri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naveenchitluri)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 20, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/postman-query-vs-kibana-query/128613 "2018-04-20T03:51:36Z")

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Hi I am trying to call RESTful service by sending "POST" request to the following URL using postman...please see the request and response below. The response has no results returned...but when I try same query in Kiban…

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