Cluster Backup

Question 1

What does the backup contain?

Answer 1

configuration files (naming rules, tags, management zones, alerting profiles, and more) and monitoring

Question 2

How can you disable automatic backup manually?

Answer 2

Remove the line with the path.repo parameter from elasticsearch.yml

Question 3

Why is transaction storage data not backed up?

Answer 3

Transactions storage data has a retention period of only 10 days by default. From a long-term perspective, there is no need to back up.

Question 4

What options do you have to extend what is included in the backup?

Answer 4

1. User sessions

2. Timeseries metric data

Question 5

Disadvantages of not having a backup for transactions

Answer 5

Gaps in deep monitoring after restore