Adding information for NETINFO environmental variable #463
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This pull request does not have a backport label. Could you fix it @gizas? 🙏
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| | (bool) When `false`, disables `netinfo.enabled` parameter of `add_host_metadata` processor. | ||
| Setting this to `false` is recommended for large scale setups where the host.ip and host.mac fields index size increases. |
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Lets add some more details here around what the problem is -> tons of ip addresses, tons of storage needed, slower queries
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Done. Let me know if is ok
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I think we can still add more details here but lets do this as a follow up.
docs/en/ingest-management/elastic-agent/configuration/env/shared-env.asciidoc
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| === Disabling indexing host.ip and host.mac fields | ||
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| A new environemntal variable `NETINFO: false` has been introduced to globally disable the indexing of fields `host.ip` and `host.mac` in your {k8s} integration. For more information see <<agent-environment-variables>>. |
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Does it disable indexing all host.ip fields or just reduces the number?
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Set default value ELASTIC_NETINFO: false as per discussion here elastic/beats#36506 (comment) |
docs/en/ingest-management/elastic-agent/scaling-on-kubernetes.asciidoc
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…ed-env.asciidoc Co-authored-by: David Kilfoyle <[email protected]>
…asciidoc Co-authored-by: David Kilfoyle <[email protected]>
…asciidoc Co-authored-by: David Kilfoyle <[email protected]>
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Any other suggestions or please can I have an approval here? |
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| | (bool) When `false`, disables `netinfo.enabled` parameter of `add_host_metadata` processor. | ||
| Setting this to `false` is recommended for large scale setups where the host.ip and host.mac fields index size increases. |
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I think we can still add more details here but lets do this as a follow up.
Adding documentation information for NETINFO envrionmental variable introdused in this PR: elastic/beats#36506