Download Elasticsearch
GA Release
Download and unzip Elasticsearch
Package managers:
Containers:
Elasticsearch can also be installed from our package repositories using apt or yum. See Repositories in the Guide.
Start Elasticsearch
Run bin/elasticsearch
(or bin\elasticsearch.bat
on Windows) to start Elasticsearch with security enabled.
Dive in
See our documentation for the latest up-to-date information.
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