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Kibana search preference

My Elasticsearch cluster is split in fast and slow nodes. If I am manually querying by REST, I'll use the preference query parameter (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.17/search-search.html#search-preference) to specify that I'd like the search to occur on a fast node.

I can't do the same in Kibana so how can I setup such that Elasticsearch/Kibana will search on the fast nodes if they are available, falling back to the replicas on the slow nodes as required?

Solution

  • You can change the way Kibana specifies the preference parameter by configuring this in Stack Management > Advanced Settings and then changing the following settings:

    • courier:setRequestPreference = Custom (instead of SessionID)
    • courier:customRequestPreference = _only_nodes:

    Then it should work the way you expect.