I set up Elasticsearch to create a new index on a daily interval but when I started the stack up, I "synchronized" a lot of log data from the past right away resulting in the first index being a LOT larger than the others following it (50g instead of 1g). Is this going to cause my search speed to be…

How much does index size effect search speed?

brandont (Brandon Taylor) February 27, 2017, 12:00am 5

Interesting. Thanks for following up. I'll take a look at the presentation. Do you think this could be the cause of my search speed problems?

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