elasticsearch/logstash — pull request #1148 by robbydyer (2014-03-05 18:32:11+00:00)
Title: Add redis output congestion_attempts

When a list of redis hosts is given to the redis output and the congestion_threshold is hit, it should try sending the output to a different host in the list after a certain number of attempts. This is useful in cases where the consumers of the redis lists are down. As it is now, logstash will just keep attempting to send output to the same host, rather than attempting another one in its list.