I disabled elasticsearch ages ago (over a year ago I think?), not because its not useful but because I hadn't upgraded it and the version I was running wasn't compatible that I knew of as of like 4.0 of IPS.

I just tried to upgrade to the latest beta and I'm failing at an error that is associated with elasticsearch.

Help?

My entire site is now down.

Please be aware that betas come with limited support and fixes may be far in between issues. I have transferred this to a ticket as I would like to investigate this to see why this is. Please check your email for further correspondence. 

I couldn't wait for resolution so I reinstalled elastisearch.

No problem. Please let us know if you have the same issue again, and just respond to that same ticket