Download Elasticsearch
GA Release
Copy to try locally in two minutes: start-local
For local testing, use Docker to install and run Elasticsearch and Kibana on your local machine using start-local–
curl -fsSL https://elastic.co/start-local | sh
For production installations, follow the steps below.
1
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.
2
Start Elasticsearch
Run bin/elasticsearch
(or bin\elasticsearch.bat
on Windows) to start Elasticsearch with security enabled.
3
Dive in
See our documentation for the latest up-to-date information.
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