We missed a very important configuration in our elasticsearch.yml discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes and the default for it seems to be -1 according to _cluster/settings What would be the right steps to update our yml file with the above setting. should a rolling restart be sufficient. yester…

Discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes is set to -1 by default

DavidTurner (David Turner) May 16, 2020, 10:12pm 2

-1 roughly means the same as 1. But I think you're using version 7.2, in which case this setting is ignored and should not be set.

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