ES settings alone would be great, are there other options that I could have 
missed? right now the main priority is preventing document updates/deletes 
(and index deletes) via the ES rest api.

Thanks

On Thursday, June 12, 2014 6:21:36 PM UTC+3, Jörg Prante wrote:
>
> There are a lot of methods to tamper with ES files, and physically, 
> everything is possible to modify in files as long as your operating system 
> permits more than something like "append-only" mode for ES files (not that 
> I know this would work)
>
> So it depends on your requirements about the security level you want to 
> reach, if ES settings alone can help you or if you need more (paranoid) 
> configurations.
>
> Jörg
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Harvii Dent <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm planning to use Elasticsearch with Logstash for logs management and 
>> search, however, one thing I'm unable to find an answer for is making sure 
>> that the data cannot be modified once it reaches Elasticsearch.
>>
>> "action.destructive_requires_name" prevents deleting all indices at once, 
>> but they can still be deleted. Are there any options to prevent deleting 
>> indices altogether? 
>>
>> And on the document level, is it possible to disable 'delete' *AND* 
>> 'update' operations without setting the entire index as read-only (ie. 
>> 'index.blocks.read_only')?
>>
>> Lastly, does setting 'index.blocks.read_only' ensure that the index files 
>> on disk are not changed (so they can be monitored using a file integrity 
>> monitoring solution)? as many regulatory and compliance bodies have 
>> requirements for ensuring logs integrity.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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