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Data node disconnected

ECH

Elastic Cloud Hosted lets you manage and configure one or more deployments of the versioned Elastic Stack, hosted on Elastic Cloud.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

ECK

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes extends Kubernetes orchestration capabilities to allow you to deploy and manage components of the Elastic Stack.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

ECE

Elastic Cloud Enterprise is a self-managed orchestration platform for deploying and managing the Elastic Stack at scale.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

Self-managed

Self-managed deployments are Elastic Stack deployments managed without the assistance of an orchestrator.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

A data node is no longer connected to the cluster. Remaining nodes must handle its indexing, search, and shard work, which can slow operations and reduce availability.

Note

For a complete list of insights, refer to AutoOps insights.

Field Value
Component Elasticsearch
Severity High
Scope Cluster
Domains node-lifecycle, stability

You can customize these settings to adjust when AutoOps detects this event and presents the insight. Refer to AutoOps event settings for details.

The default customization settings are:

Setting Type Default
Node disconnect timeout in seconds Integer 300

The following is an example of what you might see when this insight is triggered. Real insights use live data and links from your deployment or cluster.

Disconnected node: es-data-01 and es-data-02

Before the node disconnected, related conditions were observed:

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Note

AutoOps shows different recommendations depending on how their conditions match your deployment or cluster.

Investigate disconnected node activity

Condition: Always shown for this insight.

Review tasks, slow search logs, and indexing logs from before the disconnect to find costly requests or errors that might have caused the node to drop.

Data nodes hold primary and replica shards. When a data node disconnects unexpectedly, shards on that node become unavailable until replicas are promoted or reassigned. Remaining data nodes take on indexing and search work from the lost shards, which can slow operations and reduce availability.

The cluster also spends resources recovering and relocating shards. Unplanned disconnects often point to host failure, disk or memory pressure, or network problems. If multiple nodes fail in succession, cluster health can degrade quickly.

Delaying allocation when a node leaves