This is an optional feature offered by the plugin.

If you want to test the plugin quickly, without spending time and efforts on installing Elasticsearch, we provide you with a one-click temporary Elasticsearch index.

This index is hosted at https://www.elastic.co/cloud.

It will be available for 2 hours, after which it will be destroyed.

2 hours is far enough to test the plugin, and to decide to spend time on installing your own Elasticsearch server.

First step: click on “Create my instant free index” button

Second step: confirm that you are not a spam robot with Google reCAPTCHA

Third step: the temporary index settings are automatically filled for you

You have now created a hosted Elasticsearch index, with it’s configuration files installed. You can now proceed with the next steps, without worrying about Elasticsearch installations steps.