Install on each node wget http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/cassandra/redhat/30x/cassandra-3.0.13-1.noarch.rpm yum install jre rpm -ivh cassandra-3.0.13-1.noarch.rpm chkconfig cassandra on Configuration changes on each node vi /etc/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml Customise the seeds / ip address for your environment cluster_name: ‘cassandra_cluster’ seeds: “192.168.65.120,192.168.65.121,192.168.65.122” listen_address: rpc_address: Start the cassandra service on each node service cassandra start service cassandra status If you get the following […]

If you’re playing with elasticsearch on a single host you may notice your cluster health is always yellow. This is probably because your indexes are set to have one replica but there’s no other node to replicate it to. To confirm if this is the case or not you can look in elasticsearch-head. In the […]

To view the settings of an index run the following at the command-line… curl -XGET http://hostname:9200/indexname/_settings From here you can indeify the setting you need and modify it as you wish. This example sets the number of replicas to zero. curl -XPUT http://hostname:9200/indexname/_settings -d ‘{ “index”: {“number_of_replicas”:”0″}}’ For further details see the manual.

I’ve been playing with EFK and elasticsearch ended up eating all of the RAM on my test system. I discovered this was due to it attempting to cache all these indexes. Since this is a test system I’m not too bothered about having a long history here so I wrote this bash script to remove […]

Here is an updated version of the instructions given at Free Alternative to Splunk Using Fluentd. The installation was performed in CentOS 6.5. 1. Install ElasticSearch mkdir /opt/src cd /opt/src wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.2.1.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh elasticsearch-1.2.1.noarch.rpm /sbin/chkconfig –add elasticsearch service elasticsearch start # Move default file locations if required mkdir /data/elasticsearch mkdir /data/elasticsearch/data mkdir /data/elasticsearch/tmp mkdir /data/elasticsearch/logs […]