topic Re: What happens when a cluster master goes down? in Deployment Architecture

What happens when a cluster master goes down?

Steve_G_ — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:16:32 GMT

If the master goes down, what happens to incoming data? Does it continue to get replicated? How about if a bucket rolls? Can a new bucket get replicated?

What about searches? Can the search head continue to coordinate searches and will the search results be complete?

Re: What happens when a cluster master goes down?

Steve_G_ — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:16:46 GMT

The answers to these, and many other, questions related to master failure can be found here:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Whathappenswhenamasternodegoesdown

Re: What happens when a cluster master goes down?

hemendralodhi — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 03:31:39 GMT

I have a question around this: As per docs SH query Master to get list of peers and direct request to them. In case of Master failure how search will continue??

Re: What happens when a cluster master goes down?

svarathan_splun — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:15:01 GMT

The initial question is related to Index clustering. You are asking about SH Clustering.

With SH Clustering - the SH Cluster will elect a new "Captain" and that new Captain will take the role of getting the list of peers and directing requests.

Re: What happens when a cluster master goes down?

star_lord — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:53:48 GMT

Updated link:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Whathappenswhenamanagernodegoesdown