Ports configuration

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When starting a quickwit search server, one important parameter that can be configured is the rest.listen_port (defaults to :7280).

Internally, Quickwit will, in fact, use three sockets. The ports of these three sockets cannot be configured independently at the moment. The ports used are computed relative to the rest.listen_port port, as follows.

It is not possible for the moment to configure these ports independently.

Optionally, an additional plaintext health check server can be enabled on its own port by setting health.listen_port (see the health check configuration). It is disabled by default. The port ${rest.listen_port} + 2 (7282 by default) is a natural choice, but any free port that does not collide with the three above works.

In order to form a cluster, you will also need to define a peer_seeds parameter. The following addresses are valid peer seed addresses:

If no port is specified in a peer node address, a Quickwit node will assume the peer is using the same port as itself.