We lost the `logger.transport.name` line in #65169 and I incorrectly
extrapolated from what was left and mangled it further in #66318. This
commit fixes things.
Today the docs use `logger.org.elasticsearch.transport: TRACE` as the
example for adjusting the logger config. This is a dangerous thing to
suggest since that's one of the most verbose loggers we have. An
accidental copy-and-paste of this example into a busy cluster can
cause damage.
This commit suggests `logger.org.elasticsearch.discovery: DEBUG`
instead, which is much more benign.
It also corrects the order of the levels and notes that `DEBUG` and
`TRACE` are only for expert use.
Closes#62758.
Include the Stack log4j config in the Docker image, in order to
make it possible to write logs in a container environment in the
same way as for an archive or package deployment. This is useful
in situations where the user is bind-mounting the logs directory
and has their own arrangements for log shipping.
To use stack logging, set the environment variable `ES_LOG_STYLE`
to `file`. It can also be set to `console`, which is the same as
not specifying it at all.
The Docker logging config is now auto-generated at image build time,
by running the default config through a transformer program when
preparing the distribution in an image builder step.
Also, in the docker distribution `build.gradle`, I changed a helper
closure into a class with a static method in order to fix an
issue where the Docker image was always being rebuilt, even when
there were no changes.
The _Important Elasticsearch configuration_ docs lists a number of items
that you should consider before moving to production. Today this list
does not include configuring snapshots, even though they're very
important to have in production. This commit addresses that omission,
removes some repetition from the introductory paragraphs, and notes that
this config is handled for you on Cloud.
Co-authored-by: James Rodewig <40268737+jrodewig@users.noreply.github.com>
Running the Elasticsearch Docker image with a different GID is
possible but trappy, since at present all the ES files are only
readable by the user and group. This PR documents a Docker CLI flag
that fixes this situation, by ensuring the container user is added
to the default group (which is `root`, GID 0).
I also added a test for this case, and refactored the Docker tests
to use a builder pattern for constructing the `docker run` command.
The existing code was becoming unwieldy and hard to change.
This commit clarifies that the preferred method for setting the heap
size is via jvm.options.d and that using the ES_JAVA_OPTS environment
variable is discouraged for production deployments.
Closes#51670, closes#50838.
Introduce a tiny base image for Docker builds. It aims to create a basic filesystem with as little as possible, which is mostly glibc, busybox and bash. A statically-built curl is also provided.
We still use CentOS 8 as a base. All the fun stuff happens in the Dockerfile.
There is no point in timing out a join attempt any more. Timing out and
retrying with the same master is pointless, and an in-flight join
attempt to one master no longer blocks attempts to join other masters.
This commit removes this unnecessary setting.
Relates #60872 in which this setting was deprecated.
The current `tee` command appends a definition to
`/etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-{version}.list`.
This can lead to duplicate lines and significantly slow apt-get
operations.
This updates the command to overwrite rather than append.
Plugin discovery documentation contained information about installing
Elasticsearch 2.0 and installing an oracle JDK, both of which is no
longer valid.
While noticing that the instructions used cleartext HTTP to install
packages, this commit replaces HTTPs links instead of HTTP where possible.
In addition a few community links have been removed, as they do not seem
to exist anymore.
Today there are a few places in the transport layer docs where we talk
about communication between nodes _within a cluster_. We also use the
transport layer for remote cluster connections, and these statements
also apply there, but this is not clear from today's docs. This commit
generalises these statements to make it clear that they apply to remote
cluster connections too.
It also adds a link from the docs on configuring TCP retries to the
(deeply-buried) docs on preserving long-lived connections.
* Clarifying environment variable substitution in the ES configuration YAML
* Update code snippet
* Remove extraneous quotes from string example
* Incorporating review feedback
Co-authored-by: James Rodewig <james.rodewig@elastic.co>
Co-authored-by: David Turner <david.turner@elastic.co>
With the removal of support for older OSes, we no longer have any
supported systems which use SysV init. This commit removes support for
that legacy init system.
relates #51480
* Moves `Discovery and cluster formation` content from `Modules` to
`Set up Elasticsearch`.
* Combines `Adding and removing nodes` with `Adding nodes to your
cluster`. Adds related redirect.
* Removes and redirects the `Modules` page.
* Rewrites parts of `Discovery and cluster formation` to remove `module`
references and meta references to the section.
'system' indices will carry special meaning in the future this commit
removes the system from the name to avoid confusion. (technically
these indices will be hidden not system)
The secure_settings_password was never taken into consideration in
the ReloadSecureSettings API. This commit fixes that and adds
necessary REST layer testing. Doing so, it also
- Allows TestClusters to have a password protected keystore
so that it can be set for tests.
- Adds a parameter to the run task so that elastisearch can
be run with a password protected keystore from source.
Closes#43990. Describe how to change the default GC settings without changing
the default `jvm.options`. Give examples using `jvm.options.d`, and
`ES_JAVA_OPTS` with Docker.
The introductory sections of the reference manual contains some simplified
instructions for adding a node to the cluster. Unfortunately they are a little
too simplified and only really work for clusters running on `localhost`. If you
try and follow these instructions for a distributed cluster then the new node
will, confusingly, auto-bootstrap itself into a distinct one-node cluster.
Multiple nodes running on localhost is a valid config, of course, but we should
spell out that these instructions are really only for experimentation and that
it takes a bit more work to add nodes to a distributed cluster. This commit
does so.
Also, the "important config" instructions for discovery say that you MUST set
`discovery.seed_hosts` whereas in fact it is fine to ignore this setting and
use a dynamic discovery mechanism instead. This commit weakens this statement
and links to the docs for dynamic discovery mechanisms.
Finally, this section is also overloaded with some technical details that are
not important for this context and are adequately covered elsewhere, and
completely fails to note that the default discovery port is 9300. This commit
addresses this.
This commit introduces the ability to override JVM options by adding
custom JVM options files to a jvm.options.d directory. This simplifies
administration of Elasticsearch by not requiring administrators to keep
the root jvm.options file in sync with changes that we make to the root
jvm.options file. Instead, they are not expected to modify this file but
instead supply their own in jvm.options.d. In Docker installations, this
means they can bind mount this directory in. In future versions of
Elasticsearch, we can consider removing the root jvm.options file
(instead, providing all options there as system JVM options).
Closes#51626. Tweak the documentation around configuring the heap size
when using Docker, to state that:
- using `ES_JAVA_OPTS` is the preferred method
- Any `ES_JAVA_OPTS` overrides the defaults in `jvm.options`
- It's possible to bind-mount a custom `jvm.options`
* Use standard format for reload settings API
The reload-secure-settings API page was not reorganized for the standard
API format, so this commit is reorganizing the page and adding some
links to the page in related documentation.
* Fix broken links
* Reorder examples to correctly check API response
* Note that only certain settings are reloadable
* [DOCS] Edits layout
* [DOCS] Removes unnecessary callouts
Co-authored-by: Lisa Cawley <lcawley@elastic.co>
David Turner
James Rodewig
Rory Hunter
Jason Tedor
Adam Locke
Leaf-Lin
Rory Hunter
Russ Cam
Pius
Alexander Reelsen
Lisa Cawley
DU-ds
Ryan Ernst
Eddie Turizo
James Rodewig
Adam Mohammed
Jake Landis
Ioannis Kakavas
Nik Richers
William Brafford