The data-path question separates people who have sized a cluster from people who installed one. Shard sizing, refresh versus flush, and each ILM phase carry one specific failure mode apiece.
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Follow one log line from the application into Elasticsearch and onto the Kibana screen. Where does this path break at scale?
The data-path question separates people who have sized a cluster from people who installed one. Shard sizing, refresh versus flush, and each ILM phase carry one specific failure mode apiece.
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