Elasticsearch Version Support

Minimum supported version

Rally 2.0.1 can benchmark Elasticsearch 2.0.0 and above.

End-of-life Policy

The latest version of Rally allows to benchmark all currently supported versions of Elasticsearch. Once an Elasticsearch version reaches end-of-life, Rally will support benchmarking the corresponding version for two more years. For example, Elasticsearch 1.7.x has been supported until 2017-01-16. Rally drops support for Elasticsearch 1.7.x two years after that date on 2019-01-16. Version support is dropped in the next Rally maintenance release after that date.

Version-specific Limitations

The following features require at least Elasticsearch 5.0.0: