Managing the Lifecycle of your Elasticsearch Indices

Managing the Lifecycle of your Elasticsearch Indices Just like me, you are probably storing your [Applications | Infrastructure | IoT ] Logs / Traces (as a time series) into Elasticsearch or at least considering doing it. If that is the case, you might be wondering how to efficiently manage index lifecycles in an automated and clean manner, then this post is for you! What’s happening? Basically, this means that your log management/aggregator applications are storing the logs in Elasticsearch using the timestamp (of capture, processing, or another one) for every record of data and grouping, using a pattern for every group....

May 13, 2020 · 8 min · 1663 words · Christian González Di Antonio