> ## Documentation Index > The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt > Use these files to discover more information as needed. # IBM Cloud® Databases for Elasticsearch Elasticsearch combines the power of a full text search engine with the indexing strengths of a JSON document database. ## Get started - [IBM Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?format=markdown) - [What is Elasticsearch?](https://www.ibm.com/products/databases-for-elasticsearch) - [Getting started with Databases for Elasticsearch](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-getting-started&format=markdown) - [Plan overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-elastic-offerings&format=markdown) - Hosting models - [Hosting models overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-hosting-models&format=markdown) - [Hosting models transition timeline and transition placement](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-hosting-model-transition&format=markdown) - [Hosting models FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-hosting-models-faq&format=markdown) - [Hosting models pricing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-hosting-pricing&format=markdown) - [Elasticsearch, machine learning, and AI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-es-ml-ai&format=markdown) - [The Dashboard overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-dashboard-overview&format=markdown) - [Performance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-performance&format=markdown) - [Pricing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-pricing&format=markdown) - [Release notes](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-elasticsearch-relnotes&format=markdown) - [Gen 2 docs](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch-gen2?format=markdown) ## Tutorials - Databases for Elasticsearch tutorials - [Configuring Kibana and Enterprise Search server with a Databases for Elasticsearch instance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-tutorial-elasticsearch-enterprise-search-tutorial&format=markdown) - [Deploy Kibana using Code Engine and connect to your Databases for Elasticsearch instance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-kibana-code-engine-icd-elasticsearch&format=markdown) - [Elasticsearch data migration using snapshot and restore](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-esmigration-elasticsearch-snapshot-restore&format=markdown) - [Configuring the Index Lifecycle Management capabilities of Databases for Elasticsearch](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-configuring-the-index-lifecycle-management-capabilities-of-databases-for-elasticsearch&format=markdown) - Elasticsearch machine learning tutorials - [Use Elasticsearch vector search capabilities](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-vector-search-elasticsearch&format=markdown) - [Use ELSER, Elastic's Natural Language Processing model](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-elser-embeddings-elasticsearch&format=markdown) - [Use machine learning models with Elasticsearch to tag content](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-nlp-ml-tutorial&format=markdown) - [Build an Elasticsearch chatbot](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-build-es-chatbot&format=markdown) - Cloud Databases tutorials - [Deploying and connecting a Cloud Databases instance ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-create-instance-tutorial&format=markdown) - [Connect a Cloud Databases deployment to an IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service application](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-tutorial-k8s-app&format=markdown) - [Example context-based restrictions scenarios](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-cbr-tutorial&format=markdown) - [Setting up disk alerts for disk utilization](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-disk-util-alert-tutorial&format=markdown) ## How to - [Provisioning](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-provisioning&format=markdown) - [Working with the Databases for Elasticsearch deployable architecture](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-deployable-architecture&format=markdown) - [Managing users and roles](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-user-management&format=markdown) - [Upgrading to a new major version](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-upgrading&format=markdown) - [Getting connection strings](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-connection-strings&format=markdown) - [Migrating Elasticsearch](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-compose-migrating&format=markdown) - [Migrating resources to a different data center](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-migrate-data-center&format=markdown) - [Understanding high availability for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-ha-dr&format=markdown) - Connecting to Databases for Elasticsearch - [Connecting an external application](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-external-app&format=markdown) - [Connecting an IBM Cloud application](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-ibmcloud-app&format=markdown) - [Connecting with cURL](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-connecting-curl&format=markdown) - Managing resources - [Adding disk, memory, and CPU](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-resources-scaling&format=markdown) - [Autoscaling](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-autoscaling&format=markdown) - [Adding Elasticsearch members](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-horizontal-scaling&format=markdown) - [Managing Cloud Databases backups](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-dashboard-backups&format=markdown) - Configuring Elasticsearch - [Elasticsearch plug-ins](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-plugins&format=markdown) - [Uploading files to Elasticsearch ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-uploading-files&format=markdown) - Observability - [Set up logging and monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-getting-started-cdb-logging-monitoring&format=markdown) - [Logging for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-logging&format=markdown) - [Monitoring integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-monitoring&format=markdown) - [Activity tracking events for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-at_events&format=markdown) - Enhancing security - [Managing security and compliance with Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-manage-security-compliance&format=markdown) - [Security and Compliance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-security-compliance&format=markdown) - [Context-based restrictions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-cbr&format=markdown) - [Example context-based restrictions scenarios](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-cbr-tutorial&format=markdown) - [Allowlisting](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-allowlisting&format=markdown) - [Service endpoints integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-service-endpoints&format=markdown) - [Virtual Private Endpoints ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-vpes&format=markdown) - [Identity and Access Management integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-iam&format=markdown) - [Key Protect integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-key-protect&format=markdown) - [Hyper Protect Crypto Services integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-hpcs&format=markdown) - [Deleting your deployment and removing your data](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-deprovisioning&format=markdown) ## Reference - [Cloud Databases through the CLI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-icd-cli&format=markdown) - [Cloud Databases API](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/cloud-databases-api) - [Versioning policy](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-versioning-policy&format=markdown) - [Getting to production for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-getting-to-production&format=markdown) - [Shared responsibilities for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-responsibilities-cloud-databases&format=markdown) - [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-elasticsearch-ha-dr&format=markdown) - [Data portability](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-data-portability&format=markdown) ## Help - Troubleshooting - [Why can’t I connect to my Elasticsearch deployment?](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-troubleshoot-connect&format=markdown) - [Why did Terraform replace my instance?](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-troubleshoot-terraform&format=markdown) - FAQs - [IBM Cloud® platform and service FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-ibm-cloud-status&format=markdown) - [Resource configuration FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-faq-resource-config&format=markdown) - [Availability zones FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-faq-availability-zones&format=markdown) - [Certificates FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-elasticsearch?topic=databases-for-elasticsearch-faq-cert&format=markdown)