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iwan-everlong
Jun 03, 2021Copper Contributor
Handling spikes
Hi everyone. Is there a recommended setup to handle spikes? Our search is simple, our index is small (<1GB). We have currently 8 replicas and 2 partitions. But about 2x a day, we have a third par...
- Jun 03, 2021With as little data you have, I'm not sure adding additional partitions will be helpful to you. I'd recommend scaling replicas up or potentially moving up to a higher SKU (S2's are roughly 4x as powerful as an S1). Check out these performance tips that we recently published: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-performance-tips. There's also some performance benchmarks we recently published: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/performance-benchmarks. At the end of the day, your best bet will be to run performance tests. We recently published a solution to help bootstrap performance tests for search: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-performance-testing.
DerekLegenzoff
Jun 03, 2021Microsoft
With as little data you have, I'm not sure adding additional partitions will be helpful to you. I'd recommend scaling replicas up or potentially moving up to a higher SKU (S2's are roughly 4x as powerful as an S1). Check out these performance tips that we recently published: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-performance-tips. There's also some performance benchmarks we recently published: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/performance-benchmarks. At the end of the day, your best bet will be to run performance tests. We recently published a solution to help bootstrap performance tests for search: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-performance-testing.
- DerekLegenzoffJun 03, 2021MicrosoftPlease do feel free to send me a private message if you'd like to have a more in depth discussion