Troubleshoot Search Performance

If you encounter performance issues at search time, follow the steps below to find out why:

See Also
Monitor Search Server Health with Load Balancers
Display Query Statistics Using a Simple Search Request


  1. Check if Exalead CloudView host is down using cvcmd. See Check All Processes.
  2. Check QPS (query per second) to identify overload using the Monitoring Console. See Display Historic and Real-Time Data.
  3. Check swap and CPU to identify overload using the Monitoring Console. See Display Historic and Real-Time Data.
  4. Check I/O to identify overload using the Monitoring Console. See Display Historic and Real-Time Data.
  5. Check user query logs for pathological queries using: