Unable to configure cluster.indices.tombstones.size

Hi,

I am fairly new to Elasticsearch, in fact I have just started playing with it this week, and I have been looking into an issue relating to dangling indexes.

I have been looking into an issue where it is potentially caused by nodes rejoining the cluster reviving some old indexes. I have been looking into the configuration "cluster.indices.tombstones.size" described here: Miscellaneous cluster settings | Elasticsearch Reference [5.5] | Elastic

However, when I try to set this in the configuration in the elasticsearch.yml file, I get the following exception on start up:

[2017-06-22T17:44:32,381][WARN ][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] uncaught exception in thread [main]
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: unknown setting [cluster.indices.tombstones.size] please check that any required plugins are installed, or check the breaking changes documentation for removed settings
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:127) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:114) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:67) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:122) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:88) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:91) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:84) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: unknown setting [cluster.indices.tombstones.size] please check that any required plugins are installed, or check the breaking changes documentation for removed settings
at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.AbstractScopedSettings.validate(AbstractScopedSettings.java:293) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.AbstractScopedSettings.validate(AbstractScopedSettings.java:256) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.SettingsModule.(SettingsModule.java:139) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:343) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:242) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:232) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:232) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:350) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:123) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.2.jar:5.4.2]
... 6 more

After looking a bit into the code, i see the setting is defined in IndexGraveyard but somehow not listed as one of the BUILT_IN_CLUSTER_SETTINGS in ClusterSettings resulting in this setting being marked as unknown.

I am just wondering if this is intended behaviour and if there are some other way this configuration can be set?

Joe

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