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High concurrent rebalance

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.

Cluster concurrent rebalance is above the recommended value. Many shards might relocate at once.

Note

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

Field Value
Component Elasticsearch
Severity Medium
Scope Cluster
Domains performance, shard-allocation

You can customize these settings to adjust when AutoOps detects this event and presents the insight. Refer to AutoOps event settings for details.

The default customization settings are:

Setting Type Default
Maximum cluster concurrent rebalance Integer 2

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.allocation.cluster_concurrent_rebalance is 12. Recommended maximum: 2.

Note

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

Decrease concurrent rebalance limit

Condition: Always shown for this insight.

High concurrent rebalance can overload the cluster. Lower cluster.routing.allocation.cluster_concurrent_rebalance with the action below.

JSON
PUT _cluster/settings
{
  "persistent": {
    "cluster.routing.allocation.cluster_concurrent_rebalance": 2
  }
}
Note

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

This setting caps how many shards the cluster can move at once to rebalance shard distribution across nodes, while respecting allocation filters and forced awareness.

When shards move, both the sending and receiving nodes need disk and network capacity. If concurrent rebalance is too high, the cluster might consume too many resources at once during relocation. That can slow indexing and search while moves are in progress.

Cluster level shard allocation routing settings