<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Good point. I saw that and thought this entry in syslog-ng.conf would address the health. It was already in there before I sent the msg.&nbsp;<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </span>skip-cluster-health-check("yes”)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That entry seems to have no effect. I’ll try setting it on the es side. &nbsp;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 8, 2016, at 8:49 AM, Fekete, Róbert &lt;<a href="mailto:robert.fekete@balabit.com" class="">robert.fekete@balabit.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Or try to set&nbsp;skip-cluster-health-check(yes)&nbsp;option in your elasticsearch destination:&nbsp;<div class=""><a href="https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/reference-destination-elasticsearch2.html#elasticsearch2-option-elasticsearch2-skip-cluster-health-check" class="">https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/reference-destination-elasticsearch2.html#elasticsearch2-option-elasticsearch2-skip-cluster-health-check</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Fabien Wernli <span dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:wernli@in2p3.fr" target="_blank" class="">wernli@in2p3.fr</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Scot,<br class="">
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 07:32:19AM -0400, Scot Needy wrote:<br class="">
&gt; [root@meo syslog-ng]# while true;do curl <a href="http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices;sleep" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://localhost:9200/_cat/<wbr class="">indices;sleep</a> 5;done<br class="">
</span><span class="">&gt; yellow open syslog-ng_2016.09.08 5 1 1 3 12.7kb 12.7kb<br class="">
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</span>It may be that syslog-ng waits for the cluster to be green.<br class="">
The most common cause for that is that you configured elasticsearch for too<br class="">
many replicas that your cluster topology can handle.<br class="">
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If you have only one node, make sure to reduce the number of replicas to 0<br class="">
for every index [1]<br class="">
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Cheers<br class="">
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