# Spike Search is too often in elastic

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spike-search-is-too-often-in-elastic/291007>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 6, 2021, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spike-search-is-too-often-in-elastic/291007 "2021-12-06T04:46:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![yuswanul](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuswanul/32/101662_2.png) [@yuswanul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yuswanul)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spike-search-is-too-often-in-elastic/291007/1 "2021-12-06T04:46:19Z")

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Hello Everobody,

I just want to know, if Elasticsearch there is often a spike like this. What caused of it? can anyone explain to me? FYI: i'm newbie in elastic

 ![spike](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/4/7409f346cbe0fea569779e8f606be64ce854185f.png)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 4:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spike-search-is-too-often-in-elastic/291007/2 "2021-12-06T04:49:38Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

What do you use Elasticsearch for?

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**Author:** ![yuswanul](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuswanul/32/101662_2.png) [@yuswanul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yuswanul)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spike-search-is-too-often-in-elastic/291007/3 "2021-12-06T04:53:31Z")

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i learned it because i need it in my work and as i know this elastic is used to centralize logs for easier troubleshooting right?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 4:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spike-search-is-too-often-in-elastic/291007/4 "2021-12-06T04:56:10Z")

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The search rate might be a few people opening dashboards, but it's hard to say sorry.

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**Author:** ![yuswanul](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuswanul/32/101662_2.png) [@yuswanul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yuswanul)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spike-search-is-too-often-in-elastic/291007/5 "2021-12-06T04:58:05Z")

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i'm sorry, but can you explain more detail

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spike-search-is-too-often-in-elastic/291007/6 "2021-12-06T05:01:51Z")

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When someone opens a Kibana dashboard it sends a bunch of requests to Elasticsearch to collect the data. That'd explain a few of the spikes.

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**Author:** ![yuswanul](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuswanul/32/101662_2.png) [@yuswanul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yuswanul)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 5:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spike-search-is-too-often-in-elastic/291007/7 "2021-12-06T05:04:14Z")

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is there any other reason ? or just that?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spike-search-is-too-often-in-elastic/291007/8 "2021-12-06T05:05:58Z")

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You'd need to enable audit logging to see what is happening there, Elasticsearch doesn't keep track of low level information like that.

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**Author:** ![yuswanul](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuswanul/32/101662_2.png) [@yuswanul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yuswanul)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 5:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spike-search-is-too-often-in-elastic/291007/9 "2021-12-06T05:06:31Z")

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thank you for the reply. that's very helpful

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2022, 5:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spike-search-is-too-often-in-elastic/291007/10 "2022-01-03T05:07:07Z")

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