Download Elasticsearch

1

Download and unzip Elasticsearch

Choose platform:
Windows
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.

Summary

Version: 8.12.1

Release date:

License: Elastic License 2.0

Supported OS/JVM/Browser

Notes:

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