* Foobar Geez <[email protected]> [20140828 12:25]:
> Thanks, Jochen!
> 
> I ran into this yesterday and wondering if the following statement is still 
> true about GL2 true from 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9759298/fluentdmongo-vs-logstash:
> 
> At present, Graylog2 uses Elasticsearch as well, but uses only a single 
> > index for all data. If you're periodically cleaning up old data, this means 
> > the equivalent of a lot of SQL "delete from table where date>YYYY.MM.DD" 
> > type-calls to clean out old data, where Logstash defaults to daily indexes 
> > (the equivalent of "drop table YYYY.MM.DD"), so clean-up is nicer. It also 
> > results in cleaner searches, requiring less heap space, as you can search 
> > over a known date because the index is named for the day's data it contains.
> 
> 
> My use case is to index lot of "time-series" data and create daily/weekly 
> indexes so I can discard them easily when the agreed retention for that 
> data expires.
> 
> I would appreciate your thoughts on this.

Size your indexes as needed to ensure that no size-based rotation will occur
and trigger the rotation manually:
http://support.torch.sh/help/kb/general/the-graylog2-index-model-explained

qvb
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