That's pretty sane. I believe the newest version of marvel increased the
default from 5s to 10s.

But be aware, you are breaking the license for Marvel with that number of
nodes - http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/marvel/

Regards,
Mark Walkom

Infrastructure Engineer
Campaign Monitor
email: [email protected]
web: www.campaignmonitor.com


On 1 May 2014 06:52, Logan Hardy <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm managing a pretty badass 11 node Elasticsearch cluster that is
> powering a customer facing dashboard reporting platform. 20 cores per node,
> 64GB RAM, SSDs, Dual 10 GbE of awesome. I evaluated Marvel while we were
> still in development on the new platform and I found it to be a very
> valuable tool. At first Marvel was indexing to the same cluster we were
> monitoring and this was okay while we were in development as there were
> plenty of extra cycles in the cluster to handle the load but now that we
> are in production it doesn't make sense to burden the cluster with this.
> The nature of our reporting system requires us to to have an index for each
> customer so we're currently at 328 indexes and over 10,000 shards total.
> The amount of data indexed by Marvel increases dramatically as the number
> of indices increases so once we got over 300 indices in the system the
> daily marvel index ended up at around 400 GB replicated and was indexing
> around 2,000 documents a second by itself.
>
> What I want to do is have Marvel index to a not as awesome 2 node
> Elasticsearch monitoring cluster. 12 cores, 64 GB RAM and spinning disks.
> But in practice these 2 nodes are unable to keep up with the load and get
> completely bogged down. I'm thinking I can sacrifice redundancy and buy
> myself some cycles by not using any replicas on the Marvel index. My other
> idea is to set marvel.agent.interval from the default 10s to something like
> 30s on the assumption that this will cut the amount of data generated by a
> third. Does this sound sane or do you have anyone have other ideas on what
> I can try to limited the load?
>
> marvel.agent.interval
>
> Controls the interval between data samples. Defaults to 10s. Set to -1 to
> temporarily disable exporting.
>
> This setting is update-able via the Cluster Update Settings API.
>
>
> Thanks -Logan-
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