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Author SHA1 Message Date
Jason Tedor 99e0268e0a Remove support for default settings
Today Elasticsearch allows default settings to be used only if the
actual setting is not set. These settings are trappy, and the complexity
invites bugs. This commit removes support for default settings with the
exception of default.path.data, default.path.conf, and default.path.logs
which are maintainted to support packaging. A follow-up will remove
support for these as well.

Relates #24093
2017-04-13 14:25:45 -04:00
Jason Tedor 21181d7865 Fix more missing markup in configuration docs
This commit fixes some missing markup in the configuration docs in the
logging configuration section.
2017-02-16 19:00:49 -05:00
Jason Tedor 0e3e111921 Replace HTTP link with HTTPS link
This commit replaces an HTTP link in the configuration docs with an
HTTPS link.
2017-02-16 12:19:30 -05:00
Jason Tedor 69dc730341 Fix missing markup in configuration docs
This commit adds a missing backtick in the configuration docs.
2017-02-16 12:19:30 -05:00
Jason Tedor fc3280b3cf Expose logs base path
For certain situations, end-users need the base path for Elasticsearch
logs. Exposing this as a property is better than hard-coding the path
into the logging configuration file as otherwise the logging
configuration file could easily diverge from the Elasticsearch
configuration file. Additionally, Elasticsearch will only have
permissions to write to the log directory configured in the
Elasticsearch configuration file. This commit adds a property that
exposes this base path.

One use-case for this is configuring a rollover strategy to retain logs
for a certain period of time. As such, we add an example of this to the
documentation.

Additionally, we expose the property es.logs.cluster_name as this is
used as the name of the log files in the default configuration.

Finally, we expose es.logs.node_name in cases where node.name is
explicitly set in case users want to include the node name as part of
the name of the log files.

Relates #22625
2017-01-16 07:39:37 -05:00
Lee Hinman 568a7ea5f1 Fix incorrect instructions for disabling deprecation logging (#21569)
We log deprecation events at "WARN", so setting it to `info` means the events
are still logged. It must be set to `error` in order to disable the logging.
2016-11-15 09:57:26 -07:00
Jason Tedor 412c61c402 Update logger names in docs
In 7560101ec7, the Elasticsearch logger
names were modified to be their fully-qualified class name (with some
exceptions for special loggers like the slow logs and the transport
tracer). This commit updates the docs accordingly.

Relates #20475
2016-09-14 08:08:49 -04:00
Jason Tedor 5fe4cb6adc Size limit deprecation logs
This commit configures the deprecation logs to be size-limited to 1 GB,
and compress these logs when they roll. The default configuration will
preserve up to four rolled logs.

Relates #20287
2016-09-01 14:25:04 -04:00
Jason Tedor 750033dc4b Update docs for Log4j 2
This commit updates the logging docs for Elasticsearch to reflect the
migration to Log4j 2.
2016-08-31 15:51:52 -04:00
Jason Tedor e166459bbe Merge branch 'master' into log4j2
* master:
  Increase visibility of deprecation logger
  Skip transport client plugin installed on JDK 9
  Explicitly disable Netty key set replacement
  percolator: Fail indexing percolator queries containing either a has_child or has_parent query.
  Make it possible for Ingest Processors to access AnalysisRegistry
  Allow RestClient to send array-based headers
  Silence rest util tests until the bogusness can be simplified
  Remove unknown HttpContext-based test as it fails unpredictably on different JVMs
  Tests: Improve rest suite names and generated test names for docs tests
  Add support for a RestClient base path
2016-08-31 10:59:27 -04:00
Jason Tedor 1a805bb675 Increase visibility of deprecation logger
The deprecation logger is an important way to make visible features of
Elasticsearch that are deprecated. Yet, the default logging makes the
log messages for the deprecation logger invisible. We want these log
messages to be visible, so the default logging for the deprecation
logger should enable these log messages. This commit changes the log
level of deprecation log message to warn, and configures the deprecation
logger so that these log messages are visible out of the box.

Relates #20254
2016-08-31 10:51:17 -04:00
jalvar08 dbf1f61c5b Fixing typo for path.conf location (#19098)
Changing -Ees.path.conf to -Epath.conf
2016-06-30 16:42:01 +02:00
Christoph Wurm de7688ae5d Update configuration.asciidoc
Correct configuration of `path.conf`
2016-05-31 15:43:16 +02:00
Jason Tedor c257e2c51f Remove settings and system properties entanglement
Today when parsing settings during bootstrap, we add a system property
for every Elasticsearch setting. Additionally, settings can be set via
system properties. This commit simplifies this situation.
 - settings are no longer propogated to system properties
 - system properties can not be used to set settings
 - the "es." prefix on settings is no longer required (nor permitted)
 - test logging has a dedicated system property (tests.logger.level)

Relates #18198
2016-05-19 14:08:08 -04:00
Aaron Mildenstein 10381de815 Removing the superfluous 's'
Pretty sure we're not making a brand new `/var/logs` directory when everything else goes into `/var/log`

Relates #18305
2016-05-12 16:42:27 -04:00
Clinton Gormley 06604708d4 Docs: Complete rewrite of setup, installation, and configuration docs 2016-04-03 16:09:48 +02:00
Jason Tedor 8a05c2a2be Bootstrap does not set system properties
Today, certain bootstrap properties are set and read via system
properties. This action-at-distance way of managing these properties is
rather confusing, and completely unnecessary. But another problem exists
with setting these as system properties. Namely, these system properties
are interpreted as Elasticsearch settings, not all of which are
registered. This leads to Elasticsearch failing to startup if any of
these special properties are set. Instead, these properties should be
kept as local as possible, and passed around as method parameters where
needed. This eliminates the action-at-distance way of handling these
properties, and eliminates the need to register these non-setting
properties. This commit does exactly that.

Additionally, today we use the "-D" command line flag to set the
properties, but this is confusing because "-D" is a special flag to the
JVM for setting system properties. This creates confusion because some
"-D" properties should be passed via arguments to the JVM (so via
ES_JAVA_OPTS), and some should be passed as arguments to
Elasticsearch. This commit changes the "-D" flag for Elasticsearch
settings to "-E".
2016-03-13 20:09:15 -04:00
Jason Tedor c0572c631d Note to configuration docs on number of threads
This commit adds a note to the configuration docs regarding the number
of threads necessary for the Elasticsearch user.

Relates #17003
2016-03-08 09:14:55 -05:00
Clinton Gormley 73529d551c Merge pull request #16875 from peschlowp/patch-7
Update configuration.asciidoc
2016-03-02 10:50:57 +01:00
Jason Tedor fa885f2e96 Remove es.max-open-files flag
This commit removes the es.max-open-files flag as the same information
can be obtained from the cluster nodes info API, and is warn logged on
startup if it's set too low anyway.

Closes #16757
2016-02-21 21:01:08 -08:00
Dongjoon Hyun 21ea552070 Fix typos in docs. 2016-02-09 02:07:32 -08:00
Kiyan 120210d024 Fix file descriptor endpoint in configuration docs
The endpoint /_nodes/process does not show file descriptors, should be
/_nodes/stats/process.

Closes #16000
2016-01-14 14:33:22 -05:00
Britta Weber 71aefd5a06 remove option to configure custom config file via CONF_FILE or -Des.default.conf
It is rarely used and was not consistently handled by different distributions anyway.
This commit also adds a test for specifying CONF_DIR when installing plugins and
starting elasticsearch.

relates to #12712 and #12954
closes #5329
closes #13715
2015-10-06 19:02:43 +02:00
Alexander Reelsen 04d2f3e061 Docs: Mention in migration doc that order to dynamic arguments is important
Due to the limited abilities of parsing of dynamic (not configured) arguments
like `http.cors.enabled`, that dont map to a command line argument but will
become configuration, we need to mention explicitely, that those dynamic arguments
must come last.

Also fixed some mentions of a memory index setting, that does not exist anymore.

Closes #12758
2015-08-10 11:33:25 +02:00
Clinton Gormley 2b512f1f29 Docs: Use "js" instead of "json" and "sh" instead of "shell" for source highlighting 2015-07-14 18:14:09 +02:00
Clinton Gormley f67ae63d88 Docs: Added cluster naming advice to setup and getting started docs 2015-06-19 18:34:00 +02:00
jaymode 78630e03a2 make prompt placeholders consistent with existing placeholders
In #10918, we introduced the prompt placeholders. These were had a different format
than our existing placeholders. This changes the prompt placeholders to follow the
format of the existing placeholders.

Relates to #11455
2015-06-06 10:41:07 -04:00
gmarz 9b230db095 [DOCS] Updated memory settings for Windows 2015-06-05 08:58:55 -04:00
jaymode f6191d05de add ability to prompt for selected settings on startup
Some settings may be considered sensitive, such as passwords, and storing them
in the configuration file on disk is not good from a security perspective. This change
allows settings to have a special value, `${prompt::text}` or `${prompt::secret}`, to
indicate that  elasticsearch should prompt the user for the actual value on startup.
This only works when started in the foreground. In cases where elasticsearch is started
as a service or in the background, an exception will be thrown.

Closes #10838
2015-06-02 09:38:07 -04:00
Alexander Reelsen 1fa21a76cf Documentation: Fix elasticsearch documentation build
The commit for closing #11033 was not building the asciidoc
documentation.
2015-05-26 18:16:12 +02:00
Alexander Reelsen 045f01c085 Infra for deprecation logging
Add support for a specific deprecation logging that can be used to turn
on in order to notify users of a specific feature, flag, setting,
parameter, ... being deprecated.

The deprecation logger logs with a "deprecation." prefix logge
(or "org.elasticsearch.deprecation." if full name is used), and outputs
the logging to a dedicated deprecation log file.

Deprecation logging are logged under the DEBUG category. The idea is not to
enabled them by default (under WARN or ERROR) when running embedded in
another application.

By default they are turned off (INFO), in order to turn it on, the
"deprecation" category need to be set to DEBUG. This can be set in the
logging file or using the cluster update settings API, see the documentation

Closes #11033
2015-05-26 17:44:52 +02:00
Pascal Borreli af6d890ad5 Docs: Fixed typos
Closes #10973
2015-05-05 10:38:05 +02:00
Tanguy Leroux b3d91b1cbb Doc: Change the wording a bit for the HOSTNAME environment variable
I should have done this while merging #9474.
2015-04-17 10:24:50 +02:00
André Hänsel c107f0bcb9 Export the hostname as environment variable and mention it in the docs 2015-04-17 09:17:02 +02:00
Clinton Gormley abc7de96ae Docs: Updated version annotations in master 2015-04-09 14:50:11 +02:00
tristanbob 807f363d6d Added note that ES packages automatically change vm.max_map_count
Closes #8601
2014-11-25 18:25:46 +01:00
javanna 06fafa3ed9 [DOCS] document that we support loading multiple logging conf files 2014-11-19 11:34:57 +01:00
Colin Goodheart-Smithe 34b37ab7f0 [DOCS] Added documentation for log4j-extras dependency 2014-11-13 12:40:14 +00:00
javanna c1428b5964 [DOCS] Expand logging documentation
Updated log4j link so it doesn't point to log4j 2.0 but version 1.2. Clarified which formats are supported and briefly explained what loggers and appenders are, plus added a link to the log4j docs.

Closes #5305
Closes #8455
2014-11-13 11:08:10 +01:00
Justin Honold 593fffc7a1 Docs: Changing ES_MAX_MEM default from '1gb' to '1g'
If you set ES_HEAP_SIZE to '1gb' as suggested, Java will yield an "Invalid initial heap size".

Closes #6824
2014-07-25 12:50:59 +02:00
Simon Willnauer d82a434d10 [STORE] Make a hybrid directory default using `mmapfs` and `niofs`
`mmapfs` is really good for random access but can have sideeffects if
memory maps are large depending on the operating system etc. A hybrid
solution where only selected files are actually memory mapped but others
mostly consumed sequentially brings the best of both worlds and
minimizes the memory map impact.
This commit mmaps only the `dvd` and `tim` file for fast random access
on docvalues and term dictionaries.

Closes #6636
2014-07-10 00:01:43 +02:00
Clinton Gormley 3eb291f334 Docs: tidied configuration.asciidoc 2014-06-17 17:37:07 +02:00
Clinton Gormley c41e63c2f9 Docs: Updated index-modules/store and setup/configuration
Explain how to set different index storage types, and
added the vm settings required to stop mmapfs from running
out of memory

Closes #6327
2014-06-12 13:56:06 +02:00
Clinton Gormley 8f0991c14f [DOCS] Rewrote the memory settings section on the configuration page 2014-05-14 16:02:59 +02:00
Holger Hoffstätte f5c9bf6f0f Update JNA to latest version
Updating to this version allows to configure a special JNA directory,
in case the /tmp directory is mounted with the noexec option, as JNA
extracts some data and tries to execute parts of it.

Also updated documentation to clarify mlockall and memory settings as well
as pointing to the new jna.tmpdir system property.

Closes #5493
2014-05-02 11:52:57 +02:00
hura 818f8c0e2b [DOCS] Fix wrong explanation in configuration.asciidoc
Replaced network.host with node.name to match config file
2014-02-24 11:29:50 +01:00
Simon Willnauer fa16969360 Cleanup comments and class names s/ElasticSearch/Elasticsearch
* Clean up s/ElasticSearch/Elasticsearch on docs/*
 * Clean up s/ElasticSearch/Elasticsearch on src/* bin/* & pom.xml
 * Clean up s/ElasticSearch/Elasticsearch on NOTICE.txt and README.textile

Closes #4634
2014-01-07 11:21:51 +01:00
Alexander Reelsen c30945a3d8 Start elasticsearch in the foreground by default
Instead of using the '-f' parameter to start elasticsearch in the
foreground, this is now the default modus.

In order to start elasticsearch in the background, the '-d' parameter
can be used.

Closes #4392
2013-12-17 10:39:22 +01:00
Clinton Gormley adf0c8424b [DOCS] How to check max_file_descriptors 2013-10-17 11:54:36 +02:00
steve mayzak 48656fd1ed removed a duplicate paragraphin config docs 2013-10-14 15:33:56 -07:00