Documentation for the remote_cluster in the role was added
in #111682 and #108840, but a few places were missed.
This commit fill the gaps in the documentation.
The info about remote cluster connection modes is a little disjointed.
This commit adds some cross-links between the sections to help users
find more relevant information.
Today `cluster.routing.allocation.allow_rebalance` defaults to
`indices_all_active` which blocks all rebalancing moves while the
cluster is in `yellow` or `red` health. This was appropriate for the
legacy allocator which might do too many rebalancing moves otherwise.
The desired-balance allocator has better support for rebalancing a
cluster that is not in `green` health, and expects to be able to
rebalance some shards away from over-full nodes to avoid allocating
shards to undesirable locations in the first place. This commit changes
the default `allow_rebalance` setting to `always`.
In order to improve the experience of cross-cluster search, we are changing
the default value of the remote cluster `skip_unavailable` setting from `false` to `true`.
This setting causes any cross-cluster _search (or _async_search) to entirely fail when
any remote cluster with `skip_unavailable=false` is either unavailable (connection to it fails)
or if the search on it fails on all shards.
Setting `skip_unavailable=true` allows partial results from other clusters to be
returned. In that case, the search response cluster metadata will show a `skipped`
status, so the user can see that no data came in from that cluster. Kibana also
now leverages this metadata in the cross-cluster search responses to allow users
to see how many clusters returned data and drill down into which clusters did not
(including failure messages).
Currently, the user/admin has to specifically set the value to `true` in the configs, like so:
```
cluster:
remote:
remote1:
seeds: 10.10.10.10:9300
skip_unavailable: true
```
even though that is probably what search admins want in the vast majority of cases.
Setting `skip_unavailable=false` should be a conscious (and probably rare) choice
by an Elasticsearch admin that a particular cluster's results are so essential to a
search (or visualization in dashboard or Discover panel) that no results at all should
be shown if it cannot return any results.
* Remove `es-test-dir` book-scoped variable
* Remove `plugins-examples-dir` book-scoped variable
* Remove `:dependencies-dir:` and `:xes-repo-dir:` book-scoped variables
- In `index.asciidoc`, two variables (`:dependencies-dir:` and `:xes-repo-dir:`) were removed.
- In `sql/index.asciidoc`, the `:sql-tests:` path was updated to fuller path
- In `esql/index.asciidoc`, the `:esql-tests:` path was updated idem
* Replace `es-repo-dir` with `es-ref-dir`
* Move `:include-xpack: true` to few files that use it, remove from index.asciidoc
Spells out in a little more detail our expectations for remote cluster
connections, including an example log message when the network is
unreliable and some suggestions for how to troubleshoot further.
Today the docs on balancing settings describe what the settings all do
but offer little guidance about how to configure them. This commit adds
some extra detail to avoid some common misunderstandings and reorders
the docs a little so that more commonly-adjusted settings are mentioned
earlier.
The docs for forced awareness indicate that no replicas will be assigned
until all zones are available, which is definitely undesirable and also
not the actual behaviour. This commit fixes the wording to match what
really happens.
Closes#104777
There's a note in the docs saying we only consider shard count and not
disk usage which is no longer true. This commit fixes the note to
reflect today's implementation.
**Problem:**
For historical reasons, source files for the Elasticsearch Guide's security, watcher, and Logstash API docs are housed in the `x-pack/docs` directory. This can confuse new contributors who expect Elasticsearch Guide docs to be located in `docs/reference`.
**Solution:**
- Move the security, watcher, and Logstash API doc source files to the `docs/reference` directory
- Update doc snippet tests to use security
Rel: https://github.com/elastic/platform-docs-team/issues/208
* [DOCS] Remote cluster troubleshooting guide
* Fix test failures
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Yang Wang <ywangd@gmail.com>
* Review feedback
* Group issues under 'common' and 'API key'
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Yang Wang <ywangd@gmail.com>
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Co-authored-by: Yang Wang <ywangd@gmail.com>
* [DOCS] Expand the step that enables the remote cluster server
* Update docs/reference/modules/cluster/remote-clusters-api-key.asciidoc
* Reword
* Reword
* [DOCS] Remote cluster migration guide
* Review feedback
* Clarify that any extra local privileges will be suppressed by the cross-cluster API key’s privileges
* New docs structure for remote clusters
* Fix broken cross-book link errors
* More broken cross-book link errors
* Remove redirects for new pages
* Link to generic remote cluster docs instead
* Drop 'API' from the abbreviated title
* Add 'Establish trust with a remote cluster' section
* Restructure 'Establish trust' section into Prprequisite/local/remote instructions
* Add 'Configure roles and users' section
* Add 'Connect to a remote cluster' section
* Move version compatibility to prerequisites
* Fix test errors
* Incorporate review feedback
* Mention version 8.10 or later in the intro for API keys
* Add license prerequisite
Introduce max headroom settings for the low, high, and flood disk watermark stages, similar to the existing max headroom setting for the flood stage of the frozen tier. Introduce new max headrooms in HealthMetadata and in ReactiveStorageDeciderService. Add multiple tests in DiskThresholdDeciderUnitTests, DiskThresholdDeciderTests and DiskThresholdMonitorTests. Moreover, addition & subtraction for ByteSizeValue, and min.
This change ensures that existing read_only_allow_delete blocks that
are placed on indices when the flood_stage watermark threshold is
exceeded, are removed when the disk threshold monitoring is disabled.
This is done by changing how InternalClusterInfoService behaves when
disabled. With this change, it will keep calling the registered
listeners periodically, but with an empty ClusterInfo.
Closes#86383
* Convert disk watermarks to RelativeByteSizeValues
Similar to the existing watermark setting for the frozen tier.
Pre-requisite for PR 88639 that plans to introduce max headroom
settings for the disk watermarks, similar to the frozen tier max
headroom setting.
* Add changelog
* Revert 20gb to 20GB
* Make formatNoTrailingZerosPercent non static
* ByteSizeValue.MINUS_ONE
* Remove getMinimumTotalSizeForBelowWatermark
* Remove comment
* Fix minor stuff
* Make parsing of RelativeByteSizeValue faster
Mimicks older definitelyNotPercentage function
* Remove Locale from Strings.format
* More MINUS_ONE
* Adds a prerequisites section covering remote cluster config, node roles, and security.
* Moves existing content about remote cluster config to the prereqs.
* Updates the remote cluster docs to include information about eligible gateway nodes and tagging for gateway nodes.
Closes https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/72001
Today the same-shard allocation decider falls back to checking the
hostname if the node has no host address. In practice nodes will always
have an address so the fallback is dead code. This commit removes that
dead code.
Relates #80702 which will add the ability to distinguish nodes by
hostname regardless of whether they have an address or not, and #80767
which optimizes this area of code - this refactoring should make the
optimization simpler.
This PR changes uses of transient cluster settings to
persistent cluster settings.
The PR also deprecates the transient settings usage.
Relates to #49540
* [DOCS] Update remote cluster docs
* Add files, rename files, write new stuff
* Plethora of changes
* Add test and update snippets
* Redirects, moved files, and test updates
* Moved file to x-pack for tests
* Remove older CCS page and add redirects
* Cleanup, link updates, and some rewrites
* Update image
* Incorporating user feedback and rewriting much of the remote clusters page
* More changes from review feedback
* Numerous updates, including request examples for CCS and Kibana
* More changes from review feedback
* Minor clarifications on security for remote clusters
* Incorporate review feedback
Co-authored-by: Yang Wang <ywangd@gmail.com>
* Some review feedback and some editorial changes
Co-authored-by: Elastic Machine <elasticmachine@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Yang Wang <ywangd@gmail.com>
In #55805, we added a setting to allow single data node clusters to
respect the high watermark. In #73733 we added the related deprecations.
This commit ensures the only valid value for the setting is true and
adds deprecations if the setting is set. The setting will be removed
in a future release.
Co-authored-by: David Turner <david.turner@elastic.co>
Dedicated frozen nodes can survive less headroom than other data nodes.
This commits introduces a separate flood stage threshold for frozen as
well as an accompanying max_headroom setting that caps the amount of
free space necessary on frozen.
Relates #71844
