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High concurrent recoveries

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.

Node concurrent recoveries is above the recommended value. More concurrent recoveries increase network and disk load and can hurt indexing and search on affected nodes.

Note

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

Field Value
Component Elasticsearch
Severity Medium
Scope Cluster
Domains performance, configuration, recovery

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 node concurrent recoveries 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.node_concurrent_recoveries is 12. Recommended maximum: 2.

Note

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

Decrease concurrent recoveries limit

Condition: Always shown for this insight.

High cluster.routing.allocation.node_concurrent_recoveries can overload nodes during recovery. Lower it with the action below to reduce cluster pressure.

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

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

The concurrent recoveries setting governs how many shards can recover across the network from other nodes (usually replica shards). By default Elasticsearch limits this to 2 to avoid overloading inter-node network.

Raising it above the recommended value can make shard movements compete with indexing and search. Moves might not complete much sooner because other bottlenecks often limit recovery speed.

Cluster level shard allocation routing settings