Hi Mark,
I've done more investigating and it seems that a Client (AKA Query) node
cannot also be a Master node. As it says here
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-discovery-zen.html#master-election
*Nodes can be excluded from becoming a master by setti
Ok thank you Mark, you've been extremely helpful and we now have a better
idea about what we're doing!
-Alex
On Thursday, 31 July 2014 23:57:26 UTC+1, Mark Walkom wrote:
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> 1 - Curator FTW.
> 2 - Masters handle cluster state, shard allocation and a whole bunch of
> other stuff around managing
You can further simplify your architecture by using rsyslog with
omelasticsearch instead of LS.
This might be handy:
http://blog.sematext.com/2013/07/01/recipe-rsyslog-elasticsearch-kibana/
Otis
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1 - Curator FTW.
2 - Masters handle cluster state, shard allocation and a whole bunch of
other stuff around managing the cluster and it's members and data. A node
that is master and data set to false is considered a search node. But the
role of being a master is not onerous, so it made sense for us
Hello Mark,
Thank you for your reply, it certainly helps to clarify many things.
Of course I have some new questions for you!
1. I haven't looked into it much yet but I'm guessing Curator can handle
different index naming schemes. E.g. logs-2014.06.30 and
stats-2014.06.30. We'd actual
1 - Looks ok, but why two replicas? You're chewing up disk for what reason?
Extra comments below.
2 - It's personal preference really and depends on how your end points send
to redis.
3 - 4GB for redis will cache quite a lot of data if you're only doing 50
events p/s (ie hours or even days based on
Hello,
We wish to set up an entire ELK system with the following features:
- Input from Logstash shippers located on 400 Linux VMs. Only a handful
of log sources on each VM.
- Data retention for 30 days, which is roughly 2TB of data in indexed ES
JSON form (not including replica sha