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po on May 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Elasticsearch node crashes can cause data loss

It is often advocated as a datastore for logging data... which means (in that case) it's usually the primary datastore but perhaps not mission-critical.

alrs on May 2, 2015 | [–]

It's a great index for log data.

Spew your log data into a standard syslog server, while also pumping it into Logstash.

Using Elasticsearch as your canonical log storage would be ridiculous.

rodgerd on May 2, 2015 | [–]

Once you start relying on it to understand the state of whatever it's logging, it's mission-critical.

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