Today we have individual settings for configuring node roles such as
node.data and node.master. Additionally, roles are pluggable and we have
used this to introduce roles such as node.ml and node.voting_only. As
the number of roles is growing, managing these becomes harder for the
user. For example, to create a master-only node, today a user has to
configure:
- node.data: false
- node.ingest: false
- node.remote_cluster_client: false
- node.ml: false
at a minimum if they are relying on defaults, but also add:
- node.master: true
- node.transform: false
- node.voting_only: false
If they want to be explicit. This is also challenging in cases where a
user wants to have configure a coordinating-only node which requires
disabling all roles, a list which we are adding to, requiring the user
to keep checking whether a node has acquired any of these roles.
This commit addresses this by adding a list setting node.roles for which
a user has explicit control over the list of roles that a node has. If
the setting is configured, the node has exactly the roles in the list,
and not any additional roles. This means to configure a master-only
node, the setting is merely 'node.roles: [master]', and to configure a
coordinating-only node, the setting is merely: 'node.roles: []'.
With this change we deprecate the existing 'node.*' settings such as
'node.data'.
**Goal**
Create a top-level search section. This will let us clean up our search
API reference docs, particularly content from [`Request body search`][0].
**Changes**
* Creates a top-level `Search your data` page. This page is designed to
house concept and tutorial docs related to search.
* Creates a `Run a search` page under `Search your data`. For now, This
contains a basic search tutorial. The goal is to add content from
[`Request body search`][0] to this in the future.
* Relocates `Long-running searches` and `Search across clusters` under
`Search your data`. Increments several headings in that content.
* Reorders the top-level TOC to move `Search your data` higher. Also
moves the `Query DSL`, `EQL`, and `SQL access` chapters immediately
after.
Relates to #48194
[0]: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/search-request-body.html
* 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.
Relocates the "Remote Clusters" documentation from the "Modules" section to the "Set up Elasticsearch" section.
Supporting changes:
* Reorders the "Bootstrap checks for X-Pack" section to immediately follow the "Bootstrap checks"chapter.
* Removes an outdated X-Pack `idef` from the "Remote Clusters" intro.
Elasticsearch enables HTTP compression by default. However, to mitigate
potential security risks like the BREACH attack, compression is disabled by
default if HTTPS is enabled.
This updates the `http.compression` setting definition accordingly and adds
additional context.
Co-authored-by: Leaf-Lin <39002973+Leaf-Lin@users.noreply.github.com>
The following settings are now no-ops:
* xpack.flattened.enabled
* xpack.logstash.enabled
* xpack.rollup.enabled
* xpack.slm.enabled
* xpack.sql.enabled
* xpack.transform.enabled
* xpack.vectors.enabled
Since these settings no longer need to be checked, we can remove settings
parameters from a number of constructors and methods, and do so in this
commit.
We also update documentation to remove references to these settings.
The disk decider had special handling for the single data node case,
allowing any allocation (skipping watermark checks) for such clusters.
This special handling can now be avoided via a setting.
We believe there's no longer a need to be able to disable basic-license
features completely using the "xpack.*.enabled" settings. If users don't
want to use those features, they simply don't need to use them. Having
such features always available lets us build more complex features that
assume basic-license features are present.
This commit deprecates settings of the form "xpack.*.enabled" for
basic-license features, excluding "security", which is a special case.
It also removes deprecated settings from integration tests and unit
tests where they're not directly relevant; e.g. monitoring and ILM are
no longer disabled in many integration tests.
Some of these characters are special to Asciidoctor and they ruin the
rendering on this page. Instead, we use a macro to passthrough these
characters without Asciidoctor applying any subtitutions to them. This
commit then addresses some rendering issues in the thread pool docs.
Co-authored-by: James Rodewig <james.rodewig@elastic.co>
The use of available processors, the terminology, and the settings
around it have evolved over time. This commit cleans up some places in
the codes and in the docs to adjust to the current terminology.
The `indices.recovery.max_bytes_per_sec` recovery bandwidth limit can differ
between nodes if it is not set dynamically, but today this is not obvious. This
commit adds a paragraph to its documentation clarifying how to set different
bandwidth limits on each node.
Co-Authored-By: James Rodewig <james.rodewig@elastic.co>
It is useful to be able to delay state recovery until enough data nodes have
joined the cluster, since this gives the shard allocator a decent opportunity
to re-use as much existing data as possible. However we also have the option to
delay state recovery until a certain number of master-eligible nodes have
joined, and this is unnecessary: we require a majority of master-eligible nodes
for state recovery, and there is no advantage in waiting for more.
This commit deprecates the unnecessary settings in preparation for their
removal.
Relates #51806
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.
Explicitly notes the Elasticsearch API endpoints that support CCS.
This should deter users from attempting to use CCS with other API
endpoints, such as `GET <index>/_doc/<_id>`.
Updates the cross-cluster search (CCS) documentation to note how
cluster-level settings are applied.
When `ccs_minimize_roundtrips` is `true`, each cluster applies its own
cluster-level settings to the request.
When `ccs_minimize_roundtrips` is `false`, cluster-level settings for
the local cluster is used. This includes shard limit settings, such as
`action.search.shard_count.limit`, `pre_filter_shard_size`, and
`max_concurrent_shard_requests`. If these limits are set too low, the
request could be rejected.
Today we use `cluster.join.timeout` to prevent nodes from waiting indefinitely
if joining a faulty master that is too slow to respond, and
`cluster.publish.timeout` to allow a faulty master to detect that it is unable
to publish its cluster state updates in a timely fashion. If these timeouts
occur then the node restarts the discovery process in an attempt to find a
healthier master.
In the special case of `discovery.type: single-node` there is no point in
looking for another healthier master since the single node in the cluster is
all we've got. This commit suppresses these timeouts and instead lets the node
wait for joins and publications to succeed no matter how long this might take.
Jason Tedor
Stuart Tettemer
bellengao
James Rodewig
Adam Locke
William Brafford
Henning Andersen
David Turner
Lisa Cawley
Tianlun Li
Tim Brooks
Yannick Welsch
Armin Braun
István Zoltán Szabó
debadair