Elasticsearch Mantanence Lessons Learned Today

The elasticsearch cluster was down! Today I troubleshooted an Elasticsearch-cluster-down issue. We have a 3-node Elasticsearch cluster receiving hundreds of Giga of tracking data every day. And this afternoon, it was suddenly down and all our kibana dashboards failed to load any data from it. From elasticsearch-kopf monitor, we could see more than half of the shards are unallocated, so it sounds like at least 2 nodes were just restarted for some reason....

June 17, 2016 · 4 min · 807 words · Teddy