Elasticsearch distant access

Question

my Elasticsearch is installed on azure virtual machine. works fine locally in :

http://localhost:9200/

how to use it from outside ?

thanks

Answer 1

Within your Elasticsearch.yml configuration you have to change your Network part.

It's the setting: network.host:

default value set to local (localhost) and you may apply the following 4:

1. local Any loopback addresses on the system
2. site Any site-local addresses on the system
3. global Any globally-scoped addresses on the system
4. [networkInterface] Addresses of a network interface, for example en0

So inside the same network use site, while from a different network you should use global. But as stated in the docu - be carefull exposing unprotected nodes to the public...

taken from the official docu, further details are also available there.

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EDIT: I found the same question for elasticserach version 2.0 here that refers to the following docu part of elasticsearch.

In the docu is written that

network :
    host : 10.0.0.4

is also an applicable syntax to specifiy the adress.