Bulk size in bulk processor

Hello ,

I would like to understand what does bulk size actually mean? Which size does it refer to?
Is it the size of the documents we are indexing in a bulk manner per request?

Please help me with it.

Thanks

setBulkSize() defines the total size of the bulk before it's sent to elasticsearch.

If you set it to 10kb and add a JSON of around 1kb, then around every 10 documents (probably less because of the headers), a bulk request will be sent to elasticsearch.

setBulkActions(10000) sets the number of requests before executing the bulk. Here every 10000 requests.

setFlushInterval(TimeValue.timeValueSeconds(5)) performs a bulk call every 5 seconds whatever the number of documents or the size in bytes (if there is at least one request of course).

HTH

Thanks David.
So basically it is the size of the payload(here it is size of JSON docs) that is flushed to the server.

Yes.

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