Add note on the danger of closed indices #61332
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Prior to elastic#33888 it is dangerous to keep closed indices in your cluster long-term: Elasticsearch does not maintain their shard copies so they tend to get lost as the cluster migrates to new nodes. This risk isn't documented today. This commit addresses that gap.
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Pinging @elastic/es-docs (>docs) |
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Pinging @elastic/es-core-features (:Core/Features/Indices APIs) |
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Thanks James, I accepted your rewrite :) |
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Prior to #33888 it is dangerous to keep closed indices in your cluster
long-term: Elasticsearch does not maintain their shard copies so they
tend to get lost as the cluster migrates to new nodes. This risk isn't
documented today. This commit addresses that gap.