Type to search.

Adaptive replica selection disabled

ECH

Elastic Cloud Hosted lets you manage and configure one or more deployments of the versioned Elastic Stack, hosted on Elastic Cloud.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

ECK

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes extends Kubernetes orchestration capabilities to allow you to deploy and manage components of the Elastic Stack.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

ECE

Elastic Cloud Enterprise is a self-managed orchestration platform for deploying and managing the Elastic Stack at scale.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

Self-managed

Self-managed deployments are Elastic Stack deployments managed without the assistance of an orchestrator.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

Adaptive replica selection is turned off. Coordinating nodes will not prefer faster or less loaded replica copies when running searches.

Note

For a complete list of insights, refer to AutoOps insights.

Field Value
Component Elasticsearch
Severity Medium
Scope Cluster
Domains performance, search

The following is an example of what you might see when this insight is triggered. Real insights use live data and links from your deployment or cluster.

cluster.routing.use_adaptive_replica_selection is false. Coordinating nodes do not use adaptive replica selection for search routing.

Note

AutoOps shows different recommendations depending on how their conditions match your deployment or cluster.

Enable adaptive replica selection

Condition: Always shown for this insight.

Enable adaptive replica selection so Elasticsearch routes searches to less-loaded replicas. Use the action below.

JSON
PUT _cluster/settings
{
  "persistent": {
    "cluster.routing.use_adaptive_replica_selection": true
  }
}
Note

Requires the manage cluster privilege. Requires Elasticsearch 8.0.0 or later. This action changes cluster or index configuration.

Adaptive replica selection lets each coordinating node track search latency per data node and prefer healthier shard copies for each search. That improves search latency and throughput and reduces load on already busy nodes.

The feature has been available since Elasticsearch 6.1 and is enabled by default on version 7 and later. Turning it off can leave distressed nodes in the search path longer than necessary.

Until the setting is enabled again, search traffic might stay uneven across replicas and a slow node can delay responses for more requests.

Cluster-level shard allocation and routing settings