==== Connecting to Elasticsearch using REST clients
Elasticsearch ships https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-rest/current/index.html[two different REST clients] that you can use to query a cluster: the "Low Level" client and the "High Level" client.
Spring Boot provides support for the "High Level" client, which ships with `org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client`.
Additionally, Spring Boot provides support for a reactive client, based on Spring Framework's `WebClient`, that ships with `org.springframework.data:spring-data-elasticsearch`.
Elasticsearch ships https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-rest/current/index.html[two different REST clients] that you can use to query a cluster: the low-level client from the `org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-rest-client` module and the high-level client from the `org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-high-level-client` module.
Additionally, Spring Boot provides support for a reactive client, based on Spring Framework's `WebClient`, from the `org.springframework.data:spring-data-elasticsearch` module.
By default, the clients will target `http://localhost:9200`.
You can use `spring.elasticsearch.*` properties to further tune how the clients are configured, as shown in the following example:
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===== Connecting to Elasticsearch using RestHighLevelClient
If you have `elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client` on the classpath, Spring Boot will auto-configure and register a `RestHighLevelClient` bean.
In addition to the properties described previously, to fine-tune the `RestHighLevelClient`, you can register an arbitrary number of beans that implement `RestClientBuilderCustomizer` for more advanced customizations.
To take full control over its registration, define a `RestClientBuilder` bean.
===== Connecting to Elasticsearch using RestClient
If you have `elasticsearch-rest-client` on the classpath, Spring Boot will auto-configure and register a `RestClient` bean.
If you have `elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client` on the classpath a `RestHighLevelClient` bean will be registered as well.
In addition to the properties described previously, to fine-tune the `RestClient` and `RestHighLevelClient`, you can register an arbitrary number of beans that implement `RestClientBuilderCustomizer` for more advanced customizations.
To take full control over the clients' configuration, define a `RestClientBuilder` bean.
TIP: If your application needs access to a "Low Level" `RestClient`, you can get it by calling `client.getLowLevelClient()` on the auto-configured `RestHighLevelClient`.
Additionally, if `elasticsearch-rest-client-sniffer` is on the classpath, a `Sniffer` is auto-configured to automatically discover nodes from a running Elasticsearch cluster and set them on the `RestHighLevelClient` bean.
Additionally, if `elasticsearch-rest-client-sniffer` is on the classpath, a `Sniffer` is auto-configured to automatically discover nodes from a running Elasticsearch cluster and set them on the `RestClient` bean.
You can further tune how `Sniffer` is configured, as shown in the following example: