Full disclosure: I posted a similar question at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52088298/elasticsearch-profile-api-time-in-nanoseconds-value-higher-than-took-time . Unexpected results from Profile API When using the Profile API I'm seeing many time_in_nanoseconds values that are higher than the…

Wanted to update this with the answers I got in case anyone else runs into this. Profile timings are a result of sampling. Because they are sampled, the raw timing numbers may not be accurate for large queries. However, these numbers can be used to compare parts of the query with other parts of th…

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Profile API `time_in_nanoseconds` value higher than `took` time

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maxshortzp (Maxshortzp) September 4, 2018, 1:05am 2

This looks very similar to ElasticSearch ProfileAPI. Not sure the version on that since it didn't say.

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Profile API `time_in_nanoseconds` value higher than `took` time

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