Hi,
I have deleted an index on follower cluster without unfollowing it.
I need to create a follower with same index name. However, unable to do that.
Can you please suggest?
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What version of Elasticsearch are you on?
What error are you seeing when you try to create the follower?
Hi Mark,
Thank you!
We are using 7.6.0.
I was getting the error yesterday. I missed to capture the error.
I tried replicating it now. But couldn't replicate it. It seems to be working fine.
So now I have one question, if we can delete a follower index without unfollowing leader and create follower again, is it really required to pause follow and close leader index before unfollowing?