X-Pack is included in free Basic version of Elasticsearch and you should use it. Here are my notes how i configured Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana to use X-Pack and SSL.
Tag: elasticsearch
Send logs from Synology DSM to Logstash
It is easy to send and parse Synology DSM logs into Elasticsearch with Logstash.
Change number of replicas on Elasticsearch
For small projects or testing you might run Elasticsearch only with one node and don't need replicas.