In depth guide to running Elasticsearch in production

This article first appeared on my blog in February 2020.

If you are here, I do not need to tell you that Elasticsearch is awesome, fast and mostly just works. If you are here, I also do not need to tell you that Elasticsearch can be opaque, confusing, and seems to break randomly for no reason. In this post I want to share my experiences and tips on how to set up Elasticsearch correctly and avoid common pitfalls. I am not here to make money so I will mostly just jam everything into one post instead of doing a series…