Disruptive actions for Aria Operations for Logs cluster that could cause data loss

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

While troubleshooting, maintaining Aria Operations for Logs cluster nodes, it is important that you are aware of the list of disruptive actions that could impact historical data.

 

Environment

Aria Operations for Logs

Resolution

You should avoid below changes into the product, to safeguard metrics/data stored : 

• Do not delete Dashboards/Reports/Alert Definitions/Log Management content or any other custom content from UI without first cloning or taking a backup
• Do not delete a node in a 3-node cluster
• Do not remove manually buckets via SSH without prior taking backups or VM snapshots

From CLI/ssh standpoint, you should avoid running any : cp, mv, rm, dd, vi, DB commands without prior taking VM snapshot or backup.

For more info about snapshots, please refer to this How to take snapshots for Aria Operations for Logs