How do I enable remote access/request in Elasticsearch 2.0?

Question

Starting from v2.0 Elasticsearch is listening only on localhost by default, but I\'d like to make request outside localhost.

For example, a request like this is allo

Answer 1

In the remote machine where elasticsearch is installed just add the below two configurations in /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml

network.host: xx.xx.xx.xx #remote elastic machine's internal IP
discovery.type: single-node

Tested on elasticsearch 6.8.3 and AWS EC2 Linux AMI as remote machine