> it becomes nigh-impossible to lose data I imagine if you implement it "correctly" you don't lose data but my experience with Elastic Search has been horrible

> it becomes nigh-impossible to lose data I imagine if you implement it "correctly" you don't lose data but my experience with Elastic Search has been horrible. I've lost data many times, for things like logs reaching an artificial maximum number of indices, and ES shutting down, or just not being able to support the simple case of a log coming both as a json and as a plain-text; there's no setting to say "just cast to text if there's a conflict", it drops the log and the workaround is to find among the many outdated ES posts out there, a piece of Ruby code to fix that one case. Many other issues (I compiled a list of like 20 stupid things about ES and the many ways I've lost data and gave up adding stuff).