We are discussing how to handle this, and I'm not sure if we're misunderstanding something. We are querying one of our three Elasticsearch nodes (e.g. elasticsearch1.ourdomain.com ) and are wondering what will happen if that server goes down. Whether it's for updating software or some kind of other i…

What happens when a the Elasticsearch server you're querying goes down?

warkolm (Mark Walkom) December 11, 2017, 9:27pm 6

That's pretty impossible to measure. Just pick one that works for you and stick with it

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