It looks like you did not configure minimum_master_nodes Jörg
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Tim Heikell <tim.heik...@heapsylon.com> wrote: > We are prepping to launch our app into production and seem to be having > some stability issues. We have a cluster of 4 VMs on Azure that all use the > Azure plugin for discovery. Most of the time it works as expected, but > sometimes it looses its mind. This morning for example, I made adjustments > to the memory allocated to the JVM of all nodes. I rebooted all of the > nodes, one at a time, waiting for a green status before rebooting the next > node. When I rebooted the fourth node, the cluster status turned red (as > per node #1). Node 1 only reported that nodes 1 and 2 were in the cluster. > I waited and nothing changed. I eventually checked the node status on node > 3 and found that nodes 3 and 4 had formed their own cluster. I ended up in > a state where nodes 1 and 2 were in a cluster, with 2 being the master, > while 3 and 4 were in a separate cluster, with 3 being the master. I > stopped the elasticsearch service on 3 and 4 and then started the services > up again. They correctly found the cluster of nodes 1 and 2 and all is well > again. Why would this happen, and how can I prevent it from happening? On > node three I found some interesting log reports that I have copied to > https://gist.github.com/theikell/9948b1d318cdc4cd0ecf > > Thanks. > > Tim > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/d2c6462d-8789-4b9f-9776-ea368f7f5661%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/d2c6462d-8789-4b9f-9776-ea368f7f5661%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAKdsXoGz8b-W%3DpUk1P1Emuszu%3DrnX5%2BwHca7k9he2B59mogoJg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.