# Broken relevance

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/broken-relevance/77846>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 8, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/broken-relevance/77846 "2017-03-08T15:56:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![venkata\_sreekanth\_bh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/65b543/32.png) [@venkata\_sreekanth\_bh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkata_sreekanth_bh)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/broken-relevance/77846/1 "2017-03-08T15:56:12Z")

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I am using elastic search for search purposes. My configuration has 3 shards and 2 replicas. One of the type of record has only 2.6 million records. When performing a simple match query against a field, it returns different results each time. I have tried using DFS query but makes no difference. Still get 3 different kind of responses.

Did any of you face this issue and how did you solve it?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/broken-relevance/77846/2 "2017-03-08T19:44:35Z")

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What does the query look like?  
What version are you on?

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**Author:** ![venkata\_sreekanth\_bh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/65b543/32.png) [@venkata\_sreekanth\_bh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkata_sreekanth_bh)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/broken-relevance/77846/3 "2017-03-08T22:33:48Z")

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Query:

{"from":0,"size":1, "query": {"match": {"field\_name": "query\_string"}}}

Version 5.1.2

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**Author:** ![softwaredoug](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/softwaredoug/32/22681_2.png) [@softwaredoug](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/softwaredoug)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/broken-relevance/77846/4 "2017-03-09T05:03:29Z")

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Have you set `explain: true` on your query? Can you see why Elasticsearch scores the documents differently? (hint a [Splainer](http://splainer.io) can help you visualize the explain)

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**Author:** ![venkata\_sreekanth\_bh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/65b543/32.png) [@venkata\_sreekanth\_bh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkata_sreekanth_bh)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/broken-relevance/77846/5 "2017-03-09T15:56:06Z")

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> [@softwaredoug](#):
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> an you see why Elasticsear

splain is a good idea, but my es instances are behind a firewall and cannot be reached externally. Forget CORS.

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**Author:** ![softwaredoug](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/softwaredoug/32/22681_2.png) [@softwaredoug](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/softwaredoug)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/broken-relevance/77846/6 "2017-03-09T17:20:50Z")

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Do you have a staging or development instance that replicated production?  
Always a good idea IMO to help troubleshoot these sort of issues.

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**Author:** ![venkata\_sreekanth\_bh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/65b543/32.png) [@venkata\_sreekanth\_bh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkata_sreekanth_bh)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/broken-relevance/77846/7 "2017-03-09T17:32:11Z")

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> [@softwaredoug](#):
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> stance that replicated production?

yes we do and all are behind firewall.

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**Author:** ![softwaredoug](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/softwaredoug/32/22681_2.png) [@softwaredoug](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/softwaredoug)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/broken-relevance/77846/8 "2017-03-09T17:47:39Z")

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In any case can you set explain: true on the query to see the relevance  
scoring debug?

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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:** [April 6, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/broken-relevance/77846/9 "2017-04-06T17:48:12Z")

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