# Translog Durability **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 22, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translog-durability/132856 "2018-05-22T16:56:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kurtiskurtis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kurtiskurtis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kurtiskurtis)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translog-durability/132856/1 "2018-05-22T16:56:11Z")
If you set translog durability to be async with a default 5 seconds, are documents searchable before the async "fsync" has been committed? ---
**Author:** ![Igor\_Motov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/igor_motov/32/45193_2.png) [@Igor\_Motov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Igor_Motov)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translog-durability/132856/2 "2018-05-25T14:29:47Z")
Translog doesn't affect searchability of the documents, it only determines if you are still going to have documents that were indexed during last 5 seconds before somebody accidentally unplugged your node after you plug your node back in. The searchability is determined by refresh operation. Please see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/translog.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/translog.html) for a more detailed explanation between refresh and flush operations. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translog-durability/132856/3 "2018-06-22T14:29:47Z")
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