I'm running ES cluster with multiple on AWS. The cluster is behind an ELB that is fed by logstash. I've tested a new mapping template in a sandbox cluster, but with only one node.
I've read over these two articles:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-templates.html
https://www.elastic.co/blog/changing-mapping-with-zero-downtime
When changing the template does each node need to have an updated copy? Can the new template be fed to the master and then it will share the template?
You can add/update your template using the _template endpoint and all master-eligible nodes will record it.
However, if you decide to store that template within a file (in the config/templates folder), then you have to store that file on all master-eligible nodes.
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I would like to know on a multi-node Elasticsearch cluster (3 nodes), to which node we can send curl call to fetch some results (by running query)?
If we can use any node IP what is can be the best practice? , for example, if
I am using node 1's URL from "node 1, node 2, and node 3", let's say node 1 goes down, I have to manually update the query URL to "node 2 or node 3" is their way so that I can have one centralized URL which does itself.
Do I have to manually do it using Nginx or load balancer, Or there is something in the elastic search itself
Although in ES if you send the request to any node, that is part of a valid ES cluster, it will route the request internally and provide you the result.
But You shouldn't use the directly node ip to communicate with the Elasticsearch for obvious reasons and one of that you already mentioned. You can use the load balancer, ngnix or DNS for your Elasticsearch cluster.
But if you are accessing it programmatically you don't need this also, while creating the Elasticsearch clients, you can specify all the nodes ip in Elasticsearch client, this way even when some nodes are down still your request will not fail.
RestClientBuilder restClientBuilder = RestClient.builder(
new HttpHost(esConfig.getHost(), esConfig.getPort()), new HttpHost(esConfig.getHost2(), esConfig.getPort2()));
As you can see i created my Elasticsearch client(works with Elasticsearch 8.5) WITH two Elasticsearch hosts.
I am running a three node Elasticsearch (ELK) cluster. All nodes have all and the same roles, e.g. data, master, etc. The disk on node 3 where the data folder is assigned became corrupt and that data is probably unrecoverable. The other nodes are running normally and one of them assumed the master role instead.
Will the cluster work normally if I replace the disk and make the empty directory available to elastic again, or am I risking crashing the whole cluster?
EDIT: As this is not explicitly mentioned in the answer, yes, if you add your node with an empty data folder, the cluster will continue normally as if you added a new node to the cluster, but you have to deal with the missing data. In my case, I lost the data as I do not have replicas.
Let me try to explain that in simple way.
Your data got corrupt at node-3 so if you add that that node again, it will not have the older data, i.e. the shards stored in node-3 will remain unavailable for the cluster.
Did you have the replica shards configured for the indexes?
What is the current status(yellow/red) of the cluster when you have
node-3 removed?
If a primary shard isn't available then the master-node promotes one of the active replicas to become the new primary. If there are currently no active replicas then status of the cluster will remain red.
I have 3 nodes elasticsearch cluster. If more than one node goes down then I can easily check them manually. Suppose nodes in the cluster got increased then it will be difficult to check them manually. So, how can I get all the nodes(specifically name of the nodes) of the cluster even if they are down?
To get live/healthy nodes I hit the api endpoint:
curl -X GET "hostname/ip:port/_cat/nodes?v&pretty"
Is there any endpoint by using which I can get total nodes and unhealthy/down nodes in elasticsearch cluster?
I was trying to list all the nodes using discovery.seed.hosts present in elasticsearch.yml config file. But I don't know how to do it or is it the right approach or not.
I don't think there is any API to know about offline nodes. If your entire cluster is down or single node down, then Elastic doesn't provide any way to check the node's health. You need to depend on an external script or code or monitoring tool which will ping all your nodes and print status.
You can write a custom script which will call below API and it will return all the nodes which are available in the cluster. Once you have received response, you can filter out IP or hostname of the node and whichever are not coming in response you can consider it as down node.
GET _cat/nodes?format=json&filter_path=ip,name
Another option is to enable cluster monitoring which will give you status of entire cluster but again it will show information about running node only.
Please check this answer for how Kibana show offline node in Cluster Monitoring.
I am new in handling elasticsearch cluster .
My question is where to put indices. settings.
In
Data nodes
Both master and data
All the nodes
For eg
indices.memory.index_buffer_size : 20%
On which all nodes i need to add this setting?
Currently I have existing
1. Elastic search
2. Logstash
3. Kibana
I have existing data on them.
Now i have setup ELK cluster with 3 Master nodes , 5 data nodes 3 client nodes.
But i am not sure how can i get existing data into them.
Is it possible that if i make the existing ES node as data node and then attach it to the cluster . Then will that data gets replicated to other data nodes as well? and then take that node offline
Option 1
How about just try with fewer nodes? It is not hard to test if it is supported if you setup one node, feed some data, and add one more and configure them as a cluster to see if data get synchronized.
Option 2
Another option is to use an elasticsearch migration tool like https://github.com/taskrabbit/elasticsearch-dump, basically, you could setup a clean cluster and migrate all your data in old node to this cluster.