opensearch-project
[BUG] Observability plugin's system index creating is impacting on OpenSearch node starts
What is the bug? User reported an issue that OpenSearch cluster is not able to spin up even if the issue in the log has been fixed: https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/14791, after investigation this is an issue caused by observability's system index creation: https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/14791#issuecomment-2381132359.
@andrross has concern on the PR to fix this issue: https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/15258, so this issue is to collect more details:
- Is this system index a critical one and if it's not created, we should block the cluster from spinning up?
- Is it possible to make the index creation a lazy operation until the time it's been used in plugin? Also please chime in the discussion in PR if you have more insights on this issue.
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IMO failing to start up a node on a plugin index creation failure seems very wrong. See https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/16340 for a bug that could fatally disable a cluster because of this choice.
