Monday, December 23, 2013

Elasticsearch index slow log for search and indexing

Today, we are going to learn on the logging for elasticsearch for its search and index. In elasticsearch config file, elasticsearch.yml, it should have a configuration such as below:
################################## Slow Log ##################################

# Shard level query and fetch threshold logging.

#index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.warn: 10s
#index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.info: 5s
#index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.debug: 2s
index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.trace: 500ms

#index.search.slowlog.threshold.fetch.warn: 1s
#index.search.slowlog.threshold.fetch.info: 800ms
#index.search.slowlog.threshold.fetch.debug: 500ms
index.search.slowlog.threshold.fetch.trace: 200ms

#index.indexing.slowlog.threshold.index.warn: 10s
#index.indexing.slowlog.threshold.index.info: 5s
#index.indexing.slowlog.threshold.index.debug: 2s
index.indexing.slowlog.threshold.index.trace: 500ms

So with this example, I have enable tracing for search query and search fetch with 500ms and 200ms respectively. A search in elasticsearch consists of query time and fetch time. Hence the two configuration for search. Meanwhile, logging for elasticsearch index is also enable with a threshold of 500ms.

With these configuration sets, and if your indexing or search exceed that threshold,
an entry will be log into a file. The logging file should be located in path.log
that is set in elasticsearch.yml.

So what does the number really means? Excerpts from elasticsearch official documentation

The logging is done on the shard level scope, meaning the executionof a search request within a specific shard. It does not encompass the whole search request, which can be broadcast to several shards in order to execute. Some of the benefits of shard level logging is the association of the actual execution on the specific machine, compared with request level.


 

All settings are index level settings (and each index can have different values for it), and can be changed in runtime using the indexupdate settings API.


 

... and, I have tried updating the index setting via a simple tool I've made earlier on. But the idea is same, you just need to http get by putting the variable into the index setting. You can find more information here The key for the configuration is available at ShardSlowLogSearchService.java class.
[jason@node1 bin]$ ./indices-setting.sh set search.slowlog.threshold.query.trace 500
{
"ok" : true,
"acknowledged" : true
}

[2013-12-23 12:31:12,758][TRACE][index.search.slowlog.query] [node1] [index_test][146] took[1s], took_millis[1026], types[foo,bar], stats[], search_type[QUERY_THEN_FETCH], total_shards[90], source[{"size":80,"timeout":10000,"query":{"filtered":{"query":{"query_string":{"query":"maxis*","default_operator":"and"}},"filter":{"and":{"filters":[{"query":{"match":{"site":{"query":"www.google.com","type":"boolean"}}}},{"range":{"unixtimestamp":{"from":null,"to":1387825199000,"include_lower":true,"include_upper":true}}}]}}}},"filter":{"query":{"match":{"site":{"query":"www.google.com","type":"boolean"}}}},"sort":[{"unixtimestamp":{"order":"desc"}}]}], extra_source[],

With this example, it has exceed the threshold set at 500ms which it ran for 1 second.

As for indexing, the fundamental concept is the same, so we won't elaborate in this article and that should leave you as a tutorial. :-)

3 comments:

  1. I configured elasticsearch log files are created but inside log file no data even search operations done please resove my problem

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  2. Hi, what is your logging level? Perhaps if you show more details like your setup, elasticsearch logging files into a pastebin and give link, then the problem can be narrow down.

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