Environment Variables

Listed in this page are all environment variables needed to run and initialize Elasticsearch.

Variable Name	Type	Relevance	Required	Default
ES_ELASTIC	String	Elasticsearch super-user password	Yes	dev_password_only
ES_KIBANA_SYSTEM	String	The password for the user Kibana used to connect and communicate with Elasticsearch	Yes	dev_password_only
ES_LOGSTASH_SYSTEM	String	The password for the user Logstash used to map and transform the data before storing it in Elasticsearch	Yes	dev_password_only
ES_BEATS_SYSTEM	String	The password for the user the Beats use when storing monitoring information in Elasticsearch	Yes	dev_password_only
ES_REMOTE_MONITORING_USER	String	The password for the user Metricbeat used when collecting and storing monitoring information in Elasticsearch. It has the remote_monitoring_agent and remote_monitoring_collector built-in roles	Yes	dev_password_only
ES_APM_SYSTEM	String	The password for the user of the APM server used when storing monitoring information in Elasticsearch	Yes	dev_password_only
ES_LEADER_NODE	String	Specify the leader service name (the service name in case single mode and the leader service name in case cluster mode) This is used for the config importer. Specifying the service name to initialize the mapping inside Elasticsearch	Yes	analytics-datastore-elastic-search
ES_HEAP_SIZE	String	The heap size is the amount of RAM allocated to the Java Virtual Machine of a node in Elasticsearch It should be set -Xms and -Xmx to the same value (50% of the total available RAM to a maximum of 31GB)	No	-Xms2048m -Xmx2048m
ES_SSL	Boolean	This variable is used only for the config importer of Elasticsearch (internal connection between docker services the elastic and the importer)	No	false
ES_MEMORY_LIMIT	String	RAM usage limit of Elasticsearch service	No	3G
ES_MEMORY_RESERVE	String	Reserved RAM for Elasticsearch service	No	500M
ES_PATH_REPO	String	The path to the repository in the container to store Elasticsearch backup snapshots	No	/backups/elasticsearch