Elasticsearch default password & login

Distributed search and analytics engine. In 8.x the elastic superuser password is auto-generated on first start (printed to stdout once).

Use these credentials for the very first login to Elasticsearch only. The full vendor documentation linked below explains how to rotate them and harden the install.

Default username
elastic
Default password
Set during install / first-run wizard
Default port
9200(Elasticsearch)
Default admin URL
http://localhost:9200

Notes & recovery

Reset with: bin/elasticsearch-reset-password -u elastic. In 7.x legacy default was elastic / changeme.

Official documentation →

Change the default immediately

Anyone with internet access can try the published default on Elasticsearch. Set a strong, unique password the moment you finish first-time setup, ideally before exposing the service to your LAN.

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