We have metricbeats sending data to redis and on to ES. When redis is down metricbeats CPU jumps to 100% and 4 hosts easily create 20,000 DNS requests/second for the list of hosts running redis. Kinda odd it's not cached at all.
Any way to address this? Kind makes it unsafe in our lab.
#-------------------------- Redis output -------------------------------
output.redis:
hosts: [ "<list of redis hosts>" ]
key: "metricbeat"
db: 0
timeout: 5