Discovery Plugins

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Discovery plugins extend Elasticsearch by adding new discovery mechanisms that can be used instead of Zen Discovery.

Core discovery plugins

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The core discovery plugins are:

EC2 discovery
The EC2 discovery plugin uses the AWS API for unicast discovery.
Azure Classic discovery
The Azure Classic discovery plugin uses the Azure Classic API for unicast discovery.
GCE discovery
The Google Compute Engine discovery plugin uses the GCE API for unicast discovery.
File-based discovery
The File-based discovery plugin allows providing the unicast hosts list through a dynamically updatable file.

Community contributed discovery plugins

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A number of discovery plugins have been contributed by our community: