annnnnd sent this to the wrong group. Sorry!

On Thursday, April 10, 2014 12:12:07 PM UTC-7, Ryan Bellows wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> Since upgrading to 1.4 (and ES 1.1) I've had no luck at all consuming 
> logs, with events averaging about 10k a second, peak around 15k. What 
> happens is Logstash processing cruises right along for a short while, then 
> (without any errors or otherwise obvious reasons) the redis input queue 
> starts to back up. Eventually redis will use up to it's memory limit and 
> the shippers stop sending logs. Once the queue is full Logstash cant ever 
> catch up, and I have to wipe out the queue and start over. Even with zero 
> shippers sending logs to redis, I can watch the queue length and see that 
> Logstash, when it gets to this state, is only handling a few thousand 
> events every few seconds, extremely slow.
>
> The underlying infrastructure is pretty robust, here are the specs:
>
> Indexer1:  2x6core cpus, 24gb memory
> Indexer2:  2x8core cpus, 64gb memory
>
> ES cluster:
>
> 3 x 64gb machines with 2x8core cpus, 64gb memory, 31gb for ES heap, all 
> SSD drives.
>
> The ES machines should easily be able to handle what I'm throwing at them, 
> and load/iops/etc are well within limits at all times. So I don't think the 
> problem is ES. 
>
> I've got the 2 logstash indexer machines pulling from two different redis 
> queues, one on each host. Indexer2 handles just a single log which is high 
> volume. Indexer1 handles lower volume but several logs and more Logstash 
> processing. I was thinking of switching them up to throw more CPU at the 
> heavier-processing logstash instance, but honestly I doubt it would help 
> with the backups/througput issues as graphs from both machines show they 
> are not stressed for CPU at all. In fact load is pretty low, Logstash just 
> isn't using the cpus much once it gets backed up.  
>
> Attached are my two indexer configs. I've tried bumping redis 
> input_threads up but this has little effect, same with batch_size.  Both 
> indexers are started with -w (number of cores -1), and have 8gb heap 
> configured for Logstash.
>
> host os:
>
> CentOS 6.2 with latest kernel
> Sun JRE 1.7.0_45
> Logstash 1.4.0-1_c82dc09
> ES 1.1.0
>
> Here are some graphs showing the redis queue:
>
> <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-t6wTedvMHLY/U0bq7nejaqI/AAAAAAAAACo/NbAjNnHuBAI/s1600/indexer1.png><https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-L-du00g5mAs/U0bq-GtSFrI/AAAAAAAAACw/LJEbtGXnQ34/s1600/indexer2.png>
>
> And CPU usage during the same timeframe:
>
> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-EHhbNorLiMY/U0bsqBGSE6I/AAAAAAAAADM/f21iu_46e_M/s1600/indexer2_cpu.png><https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e4TAQXmAdK4/U0bsZuA2Z3I/AAAAAAAAAC8/u3G7BzNkGWE/s1600/indexer1_cpu.png>
>   
>
>
> Attached are my two indexer configs.
>
> Really frustrated by this issue, I've tried everything I can think of but 
> the end result is always the same.  Any help or thoughts would be greatly 
> appreciated.
>
> -Ryan
>
>
>
>

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