# AppSearch Peformance - Out of the Box - SLOW

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appsearch-peformance-out-of-the-box-slow/265801>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [March 1, 2021, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appsearch-peformance-out-of-the-box-slow/265801 "2021-03-01T13:20:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![gves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dfb087/32.png) [@gves](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gves)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appsearch-peformance-out-of-the-box-slow/265801/1 "2021-03-01T13:20:52Z")

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I have been working to evaluate AppSearch -- even have Support Tickets out, but getting no response.  
VERY simple case -- i loaded only half of our available data set -- 2 Million simple documents that contain about 14 fields.  
Like i said, this is plain jane, vanilla system and testing -- nothing special. I know the systems I have built before the response is in the hundreds of milliseconds. Is this all an AppSearch issue?

When i go into the Reference UI or even the Query Tester and run any query it always takes between 4-15 seconds to respond.  
Currently running this on M5D systems (4GB of memory). Watching the performance and looking at the various performance elements, the CPU NEVER breaks 50%, even when i run many queries. The Response Time spikes are clearly visible. There seems to be about 1500 Search Requests over each 5 minute period -- Even when I am NOT connected and issuing queries.

Really starting to have significant doubts in this and really not getting any response from Support.

Is anyone else facing these type of issues?

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**Author:** ![Irina\_Truong](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/irina_truong/32/112040_2.png) [@Irina\_Truong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Irina_Truong)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appsearch-peformance-out-of-the-box-slow/265801/2 "2021-03-01T19:01:01Z")

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Sounds like you had a pretty frustrating experience - I'd like to try and help. Would you be able to link your support issues that went unanswered?

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**Author:** ![gves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dfb087/32.png) [@gves](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gves)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appsearch-peformance-out-of-the-box-slow/265801/3 "2021-03-01T19:07:28Z")

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Thank you for getting back to me. I spent an hour on the phone with Tech Support and we walked through the situation and evaluated things. In the end, I have provided a dataset to see if the issue can be recreated.  
Hopefully in the next day or so we have a conclusion to whether it is a hosting or some other type of issue.

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**Author:** ![Irina\_Truong](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/irina_truong/32/112040_2.png) [@Irina\_Truong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Irina_Truong)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appsearch-peformance-out-of-the-box-slow/265801/4 "2021-03-01T19:13:35Z")

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Ok great, I'm happy that you're being helped! A simple query taking 4-15 seconds certainly doesn't sound right to me. The engineering team should get to the bottom of it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 7:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appsearch-peformance-out-of-the-box-slow/265801/5 "2021-03-29T19:14:03Z")

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