Bi-directional recovery: Failover when clusterA is down

ECH ECK ECE Self-Managed

1. You can simulate this by shutting down either of the clusters. Let’s shut down cluster A in this tutorial.

2. Start Logstash with the same configuration file. (This step is not required in real use cases where Logstash ingests continuously.)

   ### On Logstash server ###
   bin/logstash -f multiple_hosts.conf
   		

3. Observe all Logstash traffic will be redirected to cluster B automatically.

   Tip

   You should also redirect all search traffic to the clusterB cluster during this time.

4. The two data streams on cluster B now contain a different number of documents.

   • data streams on cluster A (down)

     • 50 documents in logs-generic-default-replicated_from_clusterb
     • 50 documents in logs-generic-default

   • data streams On cluster B (up)

     • 50 documents in logs-generic-default-replicated_from_clustera
     • 150 documents in logs-generic-default