# Elasticsearch cluster performance degradation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-performance-degradation/264915>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 19, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-performance-degradation/264915 "2021-02-19T22:15:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![mario12](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario12/32/29324_2.png) [@mario12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mario12)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-performance-degradation/264915/1 "2021-02-19T22:15:01Z")

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We had a performance degradation for 5-10 minutes intervals. We looked into our monitoring tool and found there was high CPU utilization on the elasticsearch cluster. During this time we also noticed high fetch requests and cache eviction. What do the high fetch requests and high cache eviction implies?

Also, the rest of the metrics looked fine. Our slow query settings are set to 1 minute. So, we don't have all the queries which were executed during that time.

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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:** [February 22, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-performance-degradation/264915/2 "2021-02-22T00:17:27Z")

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Where are you seeing these high metrics?

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**Author:** ![mario12](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario12/32/29324_2.png) [@mario12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mario12)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 1:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-performance-degradation/264915/3 "2021-02-22T01:44:27Z")

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APM - SignalFX

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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:** [February 22, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-performance-degradation/264915/4 "2021-02-22T01:47:10Z")

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I'm not familiar with that or how it collects those.

If there is an increase in requests and cache evictions (assuming the cache it's measuring is the Elasticsearch one, and not OS level), then that might suggest a large-ish number of unique queries coming in in a burst.

Is there a corresponding increase in GC?

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**Author:** ![mario12](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario12/32/29324_2.png) [@mario12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mario12)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-performance-degradation/264915/5 "2021-02-22T02:31:18Z")

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There was increase in ES cache evictions. But, GC looked fine. I have not noticed the query requests going up during this time.

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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:** [February 22, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-performance-degradation/264915/6 "2021-02-22T02:37:01Z")

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So what's the high fetch requests metric?

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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 22, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-performance-degradation/264915/7 "2021-03-22T02:37:35Z")

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