Ok so I finally managed to improve performance for overnight peaks 
(40k/mins to 180k/mins). If it can help someone:

- Moved to SSD and configured ES accordingly.
- Changed hard drive from OVA's standard IDE to SCSI with controller.
- Increased vCPU to 8 and RAM to 16GB.
- Increased VM's IOPS priority. 
- Increased the ES stream timeout to 5000ms.
- Increased journal to 10GB (although 5GB might of been enough)

So it's been dealing with the load fine for 48h now and hope for it to 
continue that way :)


On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 12:55:30 PM UTC-4, [email protected] 
wrote:
>
> So I moved to SSD and raised the journal to 10GB so the journal failures 
> stopped when logs inputs are spiking. Great!
> However I'm still getting the paused stream issue during those spikes. I 
> don't get why that stream can process those messages fine but falls behind 
> during spikes. Any way to debug the stream to identify exactly what is 
> going wrong at that moment?
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 12:35:13 PM UTC-4, [email protected] 
> wrote:
>>
>> Ok that is quite clear! Now I'll have to figure out why that bottleneck 
>> is happening. I doubt I can see the metrics later then 15 mins so that will 
>> be challenging! 
>> I'm currently moving the VM to SSDs which can't hurt but I doubt it'll 
>> solve the problem. 
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, 27 September 2016 12:16:47 UTC-4, Jochen Schalanda wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> from your screenshot it seems pretty clear that Elasticsearch can't 
>>> index messages at the same rate that they are ingested and processed by 
>>> Graylog.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 27 September 2016 17:57:16 UTC+2, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So process is when be when message is actually parsed and output is 
>>>> when sent to ES for indexing?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. The process and output buffers filling is basically back pressure 
>>> from Elasticsearch.
>>>
>>>  
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jochen
>>>
>>>

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