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       - folder: content
       - file: index.md
   - folder: versioning
+  - folder: reference-overview     
+    children:
+      - file: index.md
+      - file: elasticsearch-reference.md
+        children:
+          - file: elasticsearch-configuration.md
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+---
+title: Elasticsearch configuration reference
+navigation_title: "Configuration reference"
+---
+
+Configuration settings enable you to customize the behavior of Elasticsearch features.
+This reference provides details about each setting, such as its purpose, default behavior, and availability in Elastic Cloud environments.
+
+% TO-DO: For information about how to update these settings, refer to "Configure Elasticsearch" (link to appropriate deployment pages) %
+
+The settings are grouped by feature or purpose, for example:
+
+- Auditing
+- Circuit breaker
+- Cluster formation, discovery, and networking
+- Cross-cluster replication
+- Data stream lifecycle
+- Field data cache
+- Local gateway
+- Health diagnostic
+- Index lifecycle management, index management, recovery, and buffer
+- Inference
+- License
+- Machine learning
+- Monitoring
+- Nodes and node query cache
+- Path
+- Search
+- Security
+- Shard allocation, shard request cache, and routing
+- Snapshot and restore
+- Transforms
+- Thread pools
+- Watcher
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+---
+title: Elasticsearch reference
+nav_title: Elasticsearch and index management
+---
+
+
+% TO-DO: Add links to "Elasticsearch basics"%
+
+This section contains reference information for Elasticsearch and index management features, including:
+
+* Settings
+* Security roles and privileges
+* Index lifecycle actions
+* Mappings
+* Command line tools
+* Curator
+* Clients
+
+% TO-DO: Add links to "query language and scripting language sections"%
+
+Elasticsearch also provides REST APIs that are used by the UI components and can be called directly to configure and access Elasticsearch features.
+Refer to [Elasticsearch API](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch) and [Elasticsearch Serverless API](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch-serverless).
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+---
+title: Reference
+---
+
+This is a placeholder for the top-level reference overview.
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