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Simon Willnauer 35e705877b Limit retries of failed allocations per index (#18467 ) Today if a shard fails during initialization phase due to misconfiguration, broken disks, missing analyzers, not installed plugins etc. elasticsaerch keeps on trying to initialize or rather allocate that shard. Yet, in the worst case scenario this ends in an endless allocation loop. To prevent this loop and all it's sideeffects like spamming log files over and over again this commit adds an allocation decider that stops allocating a shard that failed more than N times in a row to allocate. The number or retries can be configured via `index.allocation.max_retry` and it's default is set to `5`. Once the setting is updated shards with less failures than the number set per index will be allowed to allocate again. Internally we maintain a counter on the UnassignedInfo that is reset to `0` once the shards has been started. Relates to #18417		2016-05-20 20:37:45 +02:00
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src/main/resources/rest-api-spec	Limit retries of failed allocations per index (#18467 )	2016-05-20 20:37:45 +02:00
.gitignore	Initial commit (blank repository)	2013-05-23 17:56:22 +02:00
README.markdown	Remove reference to utils for generating REST docs	2016-03-30 13:36:51 +02:00
build.gradle	Enable installing the rest-api-spec artifact	2016-04-13 11:26:47 -04:00

README.markdown

Elasticsearch REST API JSON specification

This repository contains a collection of JSON files which describe the Elasticsearch HTTP API.

Their purpose is to formalize and standardize the API, to facilitate development of libraries and integrations.

Example for the "Create Index" API:

{
  "indices.create": {
    "documentation": "http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/indices-create-index.html",
    "methods": ["PUT", "POST"],
    "url": {
      "path": "/{index}",
      "paths": ["/{index}"],
      "parts": {
        "index": {
          "type" : "string",
          "required" : true,
          "description" : "The name of the index"
        }
      },
      "params": {
        "timeout": {
          "type" : "time",
          "description" : "Explicit operation timeout"
        }
      }
    },
    "body": {
      "description" : "The configuration for the index (`settings` and `mappings`)"
    }
  }
}

The specification contains:

The name of the API (indices.create), which usually corresponds to the client calls
Link to the documentation at http://elastic.co
List of HTTP methods for the endpoint
URL specification: path, parts, parameters
Whether body is allowed for the endpoint or not and its description

The methods and url.paths elements list all possible HTTP methods and URLs for the endpoint; it is the responsibility of the developer to use this information for a sensible API on the target platform.

License

This software is licensed under the Apache License, version 2 ("ALv2").