Bit new to Elasticsearch. When limiting the date range of a query (for example if I have a daily index of events and I'd like to search within only a non-aligned monthly cycle), is it worth optimising the index pattern? My application exposes a query API which is internally translated into an Elast…

Elasticsearch is quite efficient when it comes to filtering out shards that do not have any data within a time range, so I would recommend testing to see what the difference is for your specific scenario as it may vary depending on data and number of indices and shards.

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itizir (Diego Becciolini) July 6, 2020, 10:16am 3

Oh btw, if you investigate the performance of time range filters, I'd be interested to hear whether you also see this...

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