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28. 04. 2023 Juergen Vigna Icinga Web 2, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Elasticsearch Snapshots and How to Monitor Them

If you have a NetEye with SIEM Module activated or own an Elasticsearch installation then you have surely activated the Elasticsearch Snapshots to make backups of all your indexes (or at least the important ones). However you have to take a regular look at your Snapshots Reports to check that everything is working correctly. I…

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08. 02. 2021 Juergen Vigna ITOA, NetEye

GlusterFS as a Shared Elasticsearch Backup Volume

To be able to make Elasticsearch Snapshots you need shared storage mounted on all Elasticsearch Data Nodes. There are various possible file systems you can use for this: GFS, NFS, CIFS and GlusterFS. What is GlusterFS GlusterFS is a scalable network file system suitable for data-intensive tasks such as cloud storage and media streaming. GlusterFS…

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