Elasticsearch Search Rejected Queue

By Opster Team

Updated: Jan 28, 2024

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What it means

If the Elasticsearch cluster starts to reject search requests, there could be a number of causes. Generally it indicates that one or more nodes cannot keep up with the volume of search requests, resulting in a queue building up on that node. Once the queue exceeds the search queue maximum size, then the node will start to reject the requests.

How to resolve it

Check to see the state of the thread pool, to find out whether the search rejections are always occurring on the same node, or are spread across all of the nodes.

GET /_cat/thread_pool/search
  • It may be useful to activate slow search query logging as described in this guide.

To minimize the impact of distressed node on your search queries, make sure you have the following setting on your cluster (version 6.1 and above):

PUT /_cluster/settings
{
  "transient": {
    "cluster.routing.use_adaptive_replica_selection": true
  }
}

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