Re: [pcp] Trying out ElasticSearch PMDA for the first time

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Hi, almost certain the current PMDA won't work with the later version of ES.
> The PMDA currently works with 0.19 and 0.20 I think of ES, but that is so
> ancient now, I suspect many of the URL endpoints are gone or different.

Mkay, thanks Paul.

> The 'good' news is that the current version of ES has a very nice simple _cat
> API (see [1]) that would be a more useful (and simpler to parse) basis for a
> newer PMDA.  The bad news, we ain't using the new version yet so not
> currently able to upgrade the PMDA, so hoping for some community support
> there..

OK.  I guess we should continue to debug a bit further here, find the failing
GETs (not clear why they dont fail immediately if theres no endpoint) and add
some version/sanity checking into the PMDA to fail gracefully for ES versions
without the supported functionality.

cheers.

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Nathan