Makes much more sense to me now. Many thanks to the both of you. On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 5:40:13 AM UTC-4, Jan Doberstein wrote: > > Hej Jamie, > > On to my question. I have a graylog server that is only doing graylog and > mongodb that I spun up from the ova. I have setup two seperate ova > instances to be elasticsearch nodes only. My question is, when the logs > come in to the graylog server (Just from windows at the moment) are they > stored on the graylog server, or do I need to add space to the > elasticsearch nodes? I am getting confused about elasticsearch in this > equation and the indices page. Even after reading info in Elasticsearch's > home website it's still fuzzy after I read it. Just want to ensure that I > have the correct amount of hard drive space for each node in the cluster. > FYI: I have expanded the graylog server's HD to 100gigs since I figured > that's where the logs are being kept. Just wanting to make sure that I am > right in this assumption. > > > In the Setup, you describe the Messages will be stored on the > Elasticsearch nodes. > > Think of them like Database Server where the Content is stored and the > Graylog Server is the Application that requests the Information from the > Database. Additional Graylog does the processing of the Messages before > they are inserted into the Database. > > That means you need some storage on your Graylog System for the Journal ( > which is a queue that is used if you have any issues with your > Elasticsearch setup ) but most of the space is needed for the Data > directory of your Elasticsearch Nodes. > > kind regards > > Jan >
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