What happens, If one of the Search Heads is down in 3-member cluster?
- The cluster can usually continue to function without interruption. All search artifacts resident on the failed member remain available through other search heads.
- If a search head cluster member fails for any reason and leaves the cluster unexpectedly, the cluster can usually continue to function without interruption.
- All Search Artifacts resident on the failed member remains available through other search heads.
- If the failed member was serving as captain, the remaining nodes elect another member as captain. Since members share configurations, the new captain is immediately fully functional. But here the election requires a minimum of 3 nodes, unfortunately, we have only 2. So, we have to go with configuring any one of the available members as a Static captain & the other one as a member.
