Shard Allocation Filtering

Shard allocation filters allows to configure shard and replicas allocation per table across generic attributes associated with nodes.

Note

The per-table shard allocation filtering works in conjunction with Cluster Level Allocation.

It is possible to assign certain attributes to a node, see Custom Attributes.

These attributes can be used with routing.allocation.* settings to allocate a table to a particular group of nodes.

Settings

The following settings are dynamic, allowing tables to be allocated (when defined on table creation) or moved (when defined by altering a table) from one set of nodes to another:

routing.allocation.include.{attribute}:Assign the table to a node whose {attribute} has at least one of the comma-separated values.
routing.allocation.require.{attribute}:Assign the table to a node whose {attribute} has all of the comma-separated values.
routing.allocation.exclude.{attribute}:Assign the table to a node whose {attribute} has none of the comma-separated values.

Special Attributes

Following special attributes are supported:

_name:Match nodes by node name.
_host_ip:Match nodes by host IP address (IP associated with hostname).
_publish_ip:Match nodes by publish IP address.
_ip:Match either _host_ip or _publish_ip.
_host:Match nodes by hostname.