IO spike: how to know if cluster rebalanced

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We saw a ~45 minute IO spike in our elastic search nodes today, and during that time, we had no spike in indexing or querying. The only thing we can guess happened was a rebalance. Is there any way we can confirm this theory for sure? What else might cause this spike if our idexing/querying nodes were spiking?

Thanks

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One other reason for a spike in IO is large merge that happened to a lucene
index. Each lucen index is constructed of several segments, which gets
merged every so ofter (I can provide more details on how this works if
needed). A spike might be caused because a large merge between big segments
has occurred.

-shay.banon

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:12 PM, John Chang jchangkihtest2@gmail.comwrote:

We saw a ~45 minute IO spike in our Elasticsearch nodes today, and during
that time, we had no spike in indexing or querying. The only thing we can
guess happened was a rebalance. Is there any way we can confirm this
theory
for sure? What else might cause this spike if our idexing/querying nodes
were spiking?

Thanks

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