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From time to time under snapshots and maintenance is see Most Recent State = PARTIAL. Almost all of them are SUCCESS, however am wondering what PARTIAL means and what are ramifications.

Hello, Ken!

The partial state means that one or more indices added to the snapshot didn't have all primary shards available.
You can still restore from a partial snapshot, but you might need to use older snapshots to restore any missing indices.

This is something that just happens from time to time. If you're getting a lot of partial snapshots, that might be worth looking into.
What percentage of partials are you getting?

If it's a lot, we might want to have a look at your system profile.

--Jeffrey

Hey Jeffrey,

8 out of 41 or almost 20%. Is that a lot?

Ken

That's a bit higher than we'd expect. It's worth looking into, so would you mind sending a profile, and also a screenshot of your snapshots status? That will help get us started and we can go from there.

Thanks!

Here's the system profile and screencap of snapshots.

Thanks. I've downloaded the data and made it available for the team. Can you also click the Restore button for the 2020.03.08 logstash and provide a screenshot of that please?

Restore not successful. NagiosLS state was green when restore attempted. It complains about the index already being open, but it is not.

It looks like around the time of that particular failure the disk was pretty full:
I would recommend increasing the disk size to help avoid these issues and also using the NCPA client to monitor disk space:

https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... i-857.html