Re: choosing shard vs alice in elasticsearch

2014-03-21 Thread Adrien Grand
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Chetana ambha.car...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Is it a good idea to create shards based on size/period or create one shard with multiple alices based on filter condition? I would recommend on using time-based indices, you can hear about the rationale at

choosing shard vs alice in elasticsearch

2014-03-20 Thread Chetana
I am planning to use elasticsearch (ES) for storing event logs. Per day, the application should store nearly 3000+ events and size will be around 30-50K. I need to take some statistics monthly, half yearly, yearly also year old data can be ignored sometimes but data should be retained for