How would index-pattern affect my search performances

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I am using kibana's index-pattern to display the numbers in a human friendly way (to display the number of bytes in MB and GB etc). How does it effect the search performance?

Below is an excerpt from the index-pattern for the field 'something' :
{"name":"something","type":"number","count":0,"scripted":false,"indexed":true,"analyzed":false,"doc_values":true,"searchable":true,"aggregatable":true}]","fieldFormatMap":"{"something":{"id":"bytes"}}"}

This index-template config helps me displaying the aggregated value of "something" in GBs.

How is this fieldFormatMap used? Is this applied on each every document on just on the aggregated result?

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The formatting done by Kibana's index patterns is all done at display time so it won't have any effect on search performance. Elasticsearch is completely unaware of the field formatters

3

HI!

Thanks for the reply.

In my case, all the searches are happening through the Discover plugin of the kibana. Also as my is a dashboard application, I have a lot of visualisations already in place. Would this fieldFormatMap slow the loading of the visualisations down?