Previously, cross-cluster replication (CCR) documentation was located in
the Stack Overview:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/master/xpack-ccr.html
This adds CCR documentation to the Elasticsearch Reference Guide with a
level offset for headings.
The level offset and CCR Stack Overview docs will be removed in later
commits.
This commit adds functionality so that aliases that are manipulated on
leader indices are replicated by the shard follow tasks to the follower
indices. Note that we ignore write indices. This is due to the fact that
follower indices do not receive direct writes so the concept is not
useful.
Relates #41815
We no longer need to mention soft deletes in the getting started guide
now that retention leases exist and default to 12h. This commit removes
mention of soft deletes from the getting started guide, to simplify that
content.
This commit expands the ccr overview page to include more information
about the lifecycle of following an index. It adds information linking
to the remote recovery documentation. And describes how an index can
fall-behind and how to fix it when this happens.
This commit introduces the forget follower API. This API is needed in cases that
unfollowing a following index fails to remove the shard history retention leases
on the leader index. This can happen explicitly through user action, or
implicitly through an index managed by ILM. When this occurs, history will be
retained longer than necessary. While the retention lease will eventually
expire, it can be expensive to allow history to persist for that long, and also
prevent ILM from performing actions like shrink on the leader index. As such, we
introduce an API to allow for manual removal of the shard history retention
leases in this case.
This is related to #35975. It adds documentation on the remote recovery
process. Additionally, it adds documentation about the various settings
that can impact the process.
(a restore needs to be complete, which happens in the background and
by default the ccr put follow api doesn't wait for this)
(this was a recent change and the pr that added this docs test,
did not include this change)
Relates to #37917
This commit modifies the put follow index action to use a
CcrRepository when creating a follower index. It routes
the logic through the snapshot/restore process. A
wait_for_active_shards parameter can be used to configure
how long to wait before returning the response.
* Add ccr follow info api
This api returns all follower indices and per follower index
the provided parameters at put follow / resume follow time and
whether index following is paused or active.
Closes#37127
* iter
* [DOCS] Edits the get follower info API
* [DOCS] Fixes link to remote cluster
* [DOCS] Clarifies descriptions for configured parameters
The "include_type_name" parameter was temporarily introduced in #37285 to facilitate
moving the default parameter setting to "false" in many places in the documentation
code snippets. Most of the places can simply be reverted without causing errors.
In this change I looked for asciidoc files that contained the
"include_type_name=true" addition when creating new indices but didn't look
likey they made use of the "_doc" type for mappings. This is mostly the case
e.g. in the analysis docs where index creating often only contains settings. I
manually corrected the use of types in some places where the docs still used an
explicit type name and not the dummy "_doc" type.
* Default include_type_name to false for get and put mappings.
* Default include_type_name to false for get field mappings.
* Add a constant for the default include_type_name value.
* Default include_type_name to false for get and put index templates.
* Default include_type_name to false for create index.
* Update create index calls in REST documentation to use include_type_name=true.
* Some minor clean-ups around the get index API.
* In REST tests, use include_type_name=true by default for index creation.
* Make sure to use 'expression == false'.
* Clarify the different IndexTemplateMetaData toXContent methods.
* Fix FullClusterRestartIT#testSnapshotRestore.
* Fix the ml_anomalies_default_mappings test.
* Fix GetFieldMappingsResponseTests and GetIndexTemplateResponseTests.
We make sure to specify include_type_name=true during xContent parsing,
so we continue to test the legacy typed responses. XContent generation
for the typeless responses is currently only covered by REST tests,
but we will be adding unit test coverage for these as we implement
each typeless API in the Java HLRC.
This commit also refactors GetMappingsResponse to follow the same appraoch
as the other mappings-related responses, where we read include_type_name
out of the xContent params, instead of creating a second toXContent method.
This gives better consistency in the response parsing code.
* Fix more REST tests.
* Improve some wording in the create index documentation.
* Add a note about types removal in the create index docs.
* Fix SmokeTestMonitoringWithSecurityIT#testHTTPExporterWithSSL.
* Make sure to mention include_type_name in the REST docs for affected APIs.
* Make sure to use 'expression == false' in FullClusterRestartIT.
* Mention include_type_name in the REST templates docs.
For each remote cluster the auto follow coordinator, starts an auto
follower that checks the remote cluster state and determines whether an
index needs to be auto followed. The time since last auto follow is
reported per remote cluster and gives insight whether the auto follow
process is alive.
Relates to #33007
Originates from #35895
* Add guidance on using CCR with Logstash
This commit adds a note to the documentation regarding how to configure
Logstash indices in the context of being available as leader indices for
cross-cluster replication.
* Oh okay
* idk
* notconsole
The current response format is:
```
{
"pattern1": {
...
},
"pattern2": {
...
}
}
```
The new format is:
```
{
"patterns": [
{
"name": "pattern1",
"pattern": {
...
}
},
{
"name": "pattern2",
"pattern": {
...
}
}
]
}
```
This format is more structured and more friendly for parsing and generating specs.
This is a breaking change, but it is better to do this now while ccr
is still a beta feature than later.
Follow up from #36049
Pius
James Rodewig
Lisa Cawley
Jason Tedor
Tim Brooks
Martijn van Groningen
Adrien Grand
Christoph Büscher
Julie Tibshirani
Josh Soref
Nhat Nguyen