Prerequisites for the following products

The Elasticsearch is a prerequisite for Product 360, and has to be installed before it.

Elasticsearch is mandatory for Product 360 production installation

The Audit Trail feature and Fulltext search feature uses Elasticsearch.

Installing the Elasticsearch 7.x.x

The procedure for setting up the Elasticsearch 7.x.x for Windows is as follows:

Download the zip from any of the locations listed below
- https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch-7-11-0
Extract the zip file
Go to bin folder and open command prompt
- run the below command
  bin>elasticsearch
Server will start and is accessible at below url
http://localhost:9200/_search

Configuration of Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch can be configured based on customer needs, there are different options available in elasticsearch.yml file. Follow official Elasticsearch setup documentation at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup.html

Ensure you be aware of the database ports your database server is running on.

Port	Database
9200	Elasticsearch

Kibana is a free and open user interface that lets us visualize the Elasticsearch data. It also helps in visualizing the metrics.