Logstash and ElasticSearch
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WARN: org.elasticsearch.discovery.zen.ping.unicast: [Blaire, Allison] failed to send ping to [[#zen_unicast_1#][inet[/127.0.0.1:9300]]] INFO | jvm 1 | 2012/02/06 22:45:55 | org.elasticsearch.transport.RemoteTransportException: [Page, Karen][inet[/127 .0.0.1:9300]][discovery/zen/unicast] INFO | jvm 1 | 2012/02/06 22:45:55 | Caused by: java.io.EOFException
The above is the typical error when the ElasticSearch version you are using externally is not in sync with the one Logstash is using, yes those versions need to match.
Fast forward a couple of weeks.. and I'm upgrading Logstash and therefore also ElasticSearch. I have a Vagrant setup to play with so all of the components are running on 1 node.
I kept running into a similar problem, this time however I saw log
entries being indexed, I could get data from my ElasticSearch setup
using
wget -q -S -O - http://localhost:9200/_status?pretty=true
But the web interface kept showing no results ;(
While nagging about it on irc .. Jordan gave me the insight :
2012-01-31.194347+0100CET.txt:(07:55:36 PM) whack: slight caveat that
elasticsearch clients also join the cluster, so if you point everyone at
127.0.0.1:9300, that :9300 could be one of your clients, not the server
Indeed when you by accident start any of the logstash instances
(server/shipper/web) before you start your ElasticSearch instance you
can be in trouble.
Ordering really matters , you really need to start ElasticSearch before you start the clients.
Obviously is you don't use the unicast setup you don't run into this problem ..
So what other mistakes should I make ?
Source: http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/logstash-and-elasticsearch
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