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Make allocation deciders more debuggable #8170

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clintongormley opened this issue Oct 20, 2014 · 4 comments
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Make allocation deciders more debuggable #8170

clintongormley opened this issue Oct 20, 2014 · 4 comments
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Currently, the excellent _cluster/reroute?explain API gives very detailed information about why a particular shard could or couldn't be moved, but we have little insight into why a cluster doesn't rebalance shards automatically.

eg if you change a setting like cluster.routing.allocation.balance.primary, and nothing changes, it is difficult to know why nothing has changed.

It would be very useful to have more insight into the decisions made by each allocation decider for each shard.

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nik9000 commented Oct 20, 2014

Sometimes I find that the allocation decider has to be "kicked" by manually forcing a move. I'm not sure what the deal is there but something like this could help debug that.

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@nik9000 the allocation deciders aren't checked periodically, but only when something changes. We've opened #8146 for that one.

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nik9000 commented Oct 20, 2014

@clintongormley thanks! It probably is that, yeah.

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Closing in favour of #12412

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