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Index settings available in Elastic Cloud Serverless projects

Serverless

In Elastic Cloud Serverless projects, configuration available to users is limited to certain index-level settings. These restrictions help ensure the reliability of Serverless projects.

This page lists the Elasticsearch index settings available in Elastic Cloud Serverless projects.

General settings

  • index.codec
  • index.default_pipeline
  • index.dense_vector.hnsw_filter_heuristic
  • index.final_pipeline
  • index.hidden
  • index.mode
  • index.query.default_field
  • index.refresh_interval

Index sorting settings

  • index.sort.field
  • index.sort.missing
  • index.sort.mode
  • index.sort.order

Index blocks settings

  • index.blocks.read_only
  • index.blocks.read
  • index.blocks.write
  • index.blocks.metadata

Field and mapping related settings

  • index.mapping.coerce
  • index.mapping.ignore_above
  • index.mapping.ignore_malformed
  • index.mapping.source.mode
  • index.mapping.synthetic_source_keep
  • index.mapping.total_fields.limit
  • index.mapping.total_fields.ignore_dynamic_beyond_limit

Data stream lifecycle settings

  • index.lifecycle.origination_date

Time series settings

  • index.time_series.start_time
  • index.time_series.end_time
  • index.look_ahead_time
  • index.look_back_time
  • index.routing_path
  • index.dimensions_tsid_strategy_enabled

Similarity and analyzers

  • index.similarity.*
  • index.analysis.*
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