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0 pointsagentgt9y ago0 comments

I'm embarrassed to say that at the present moment we currently don't use ES clustering but rather a monstrous powerful bare metal machine as we had issues with the cluster failing with some network issues we had with Rackspace.

BTW I didn't mean to denigrate Elastic Search (I assume that is why I'm getting downvoted.... a comment would help). We just haven't had the chance to upgrade it and properly configure it.

In fact Elastic has been pretty darn speedy as of lately particularly since we purge some of the data after 6 months (we still have permanent filesystem storage of logs of course).

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gerakinis9y ago

You can turn off multicast discovery and write in unicast peering addresses. If you are in the cloud and you are clustering this is step 1 =)

trimbo9y ago

> cluster failing with some network issues we had with Rackspace

Were you using Zen Discovery at the time?

I haven't kept up with ES development in the last year so maybe they fixed this, but a flaky network can cause a cluster using Zen to freak out a lot.

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