From 0fb2f6905224b55b0479968fdd73f8ec440212e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tanguy Buchier Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 17:26:56 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] [DOCS] Clarify refresh_interval new behavior (#43726) Update indexing-speed.asciidoc to clarify refresh_interval new behavior --- docs/reference/how-to/indexing-speed.asciidoc | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/reference/how-to/indexing-speed.asciidoc b/docs/reference/how-to/indexing-speed.asciidoc index 147d3a557c830..f4c224829a456 100644 --- a/docs/reference/how-to/indexing-speed.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/how-to/indexing-speed.asciidoc @@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ By default, Elasticsearch runs this operation every second, but only on indices that have received one search request or more in the last 30 seconds. This is the optimal configuration if you have no or very little search traffic (e.g. less than one search request every 5 minutes) and want to optimize for -indexing speed. +indexing speed. This behavior aims to automatically optimize bulk indexing in +the default case when no searches are performed. In order to opt out of this +behavior set the refresh interval explicitly. On the other hand, if your index experiences regular search requests, this default behavior means that Elasticsearch will refresh your index every 1