Generally we don't advocate for using `stored_fields`, and we're interested in
eventually removing the need for this parameter. So it's best to avoid using
stored fields in our docs examples when it's not actually necessary.
Individual changes:
* Avoid using 'stored_fields' in our docs.
* When defining script fields in top-hits, de-emphasize stored fields.
Reworks the `from / size` content to `Paginate search results`.
Moves those docs from the request body search API page (slated for
deletion) to the `Run a search` tutorial docs.
Also adds some notes to the `from` and `size` param docs.
Co-authored-by: debadair <debadair@elastic.co>
**Goal**
Create a top-level search section. This will let us clean up our search
API reference docs, particularly content from [`Request body search`][0].
**Changes**
* Creates a top-level `Search your data` page. This page is designed to
house concept and tutorial docs related to search.
* Creates a `Run a search` page under `Search your data`. For now, This
contains a basic search tutorial. The goal is to add content from
[`Request body search`][0] to this in the future.
* Relocates `Long-running searches` and `Search across clusters` under
`Search your data`. Increments several headings in that content.
* Reorders the top-level TOC to move `Search your data` higher. Also
moves the `Query DSL`, `EQL`, and `SQL access` chapters immediately
after.
Relates to #48194
[0]: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/search-request-body.html
This saves memory when running numeric significant terms which are not
at the top level by merging its collection into numeric terms and relying
on the optimization that we made in #55873.
This adds a few things to the `breakdown` of the profiler:
* `histogram` aggregations now contain `total_buckets` which is the
count of buckets that they collected. This could be useful when
debugging a histogram inside of another bucketing agg that is fairly
selective.
* All bucketing aggs that can delay their sub-aggregations will now add
a list of delayed sub-aggregations. This is useful because we
sometimes have fairly involved logic around which sub-aggregations get
delayed and this will save you from having to guess.
* Aggregtations wrapped in the `MultiBucketAggregatorWrapper` can't
accurately add anything to the breakdown. Instead they the wrapper
adds a marker entry `"multi_bucket_aggregator_wrapper": true` so we
can be quickly pick out such aggregations when debugging.
It also fixes a bug where `_count` breakdown entries were contributing
to the overall `time_in_nanos`. They didn't add a large amount of time
so it is unlikely that this caused a big problem, but I was there.
To support the arbitrary breakdown data this reworks the profiler so
that the `breakdown` can contain any data that is supported by
`StreamOutput#writeGenericValue(Object)` and
`XContentBuilder#value(Object)`.
Changes:
* Moves the document request body parameters for the search API
from the Request body search page to the Search API reference page.
* Relocates a search request body example from the Request body search
page to the Search API reference page.
* Adds a note to any duplicated query and request body parameters.
This is a backport of #55884 with redirects removed.
Changes:
* Adds an abbreviated title for the search API page.
* Removes the following invalid query parameters:
* `analyzer`
* `analyze_wildcard`
* `default_operator`
* `df`
* `lenient`
* `suggest_mode`
* `suggest_size`
* Replaces the URI search page's query parameter docs with a xref
* Updates the headings of several examples
This has no practical impact on users since frozen indices are the only
throttled indices today. However this has an impact on upcoming features
that would use search throttling.
Filtering out throttled indices made sense a couple years ago, but as
we're now improving support for slow requests with `_async_search` and
exploring ways to reduce storage costs, this feature has most likely
become a trap, that we'd like to not have with upcoming features that
would use search throttling.
Relates #54058
The failing suggester documentation test was expecting specific scores in the
test response, which is fragile implementation details that e.g. can change with
different lucene versions and generally shouldn't be done in documentation test.
Instead we usually replace the float values in the output response by the ones
in the actual response.
Closes#54257
This commit renames wait_for_completion to wait_for_completion_timeout in submit async search and get async search.
Also it renames clean_on_completion to keep_on_completion and turns around its behaviour.
Closes#54069
Submit async search forces pre_filter_shard_size for the underlying search that it creates.
With this commit we also prevent users from overriding such default as part of request validation.
This commit changes the pre_filter_shard_size default from 128 to unspecified.
This allows to apply heuristics based on the request and the target indices when deciding
whether the can match phase should run or not. When unspecified, this pr runs the can match phase
automatically if one of these conditions is met:
* The request targets more than 128 shards.
* The request contains read-only indices.
* The primary sort of the query targets an indexed field.
Users can opt-out from this behavior by setting the `pre_filter_shard_size` to a static value.
Closes#39835
* Get Async Search: omit _clusters section when empty (#53907)
The _clusters section is omitted by the search API whenever no remote clusters are searched. Async search should do the same, but Get Async Search returns a deserialized response, hence a weird `_clusters` section with all values set to `0` gets returned instead. In fact the recreated Clusters object is not the same object as the EMPTY constant, yet it has the same content.
This commit addresses this by changing the comparison in the `toXContent` method to not print out the section if the number of total clusters is `0`.
* Async search: remove version from response (#53960)
The goal of the version field was to quickly show when you can expect to find something new in the search response, compared to when nothing has changed. This can also be done by looking at the `_shards` section and `num_reduce_phases` returned with the search response. In fact when there has been one or more additional reduction of the results, you can expect new results in the search response. Otherwise, the `_shards` section could notify of additional failures of shards that have completed the query, but that is not a guarantee that their results will be exposed (only when the following partial reduction is performed their results will be available).
That said this commit clarifies this in the docs and removes the version field from the async search response
* Async Search: replicas to auto expand from 0 to 1 (#53964)
This way single node clusters that are green don't go yellow once async search is used, while
all the others still have one replica.
* [DOCS] address timing issue in async search docs tests (#53910)
The docs snippets for submit async search have proven difficult to test as it is not possible to guarantee that you get a response that is not final, even when providing `wait_for_completion=0`. In the docs we want to show though a proper long-running query, and its first response should be partial rather than final.
With this commit we adapt the docs snippets to show a partial response, and replace under the hood all that's needed to make the snippets tests succeed when we get a final response. Also, increased the timeout so we always get a final response.
Closes#53887Closes#53891
This change adds the recall@k metric and refactors precision@k to match
the new metric.
Recall@k is an important metric to use for learning to rank (LTR)
use-cases. Candidate generation or first ranking phase ranking functions
are often optimized for high recall, in order to generate as many
relevant candidates in the top-k as possible for a second phase of
ranking. Adding this metric allows tuning that base query for LTR.
See: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/51676
Backports: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/52577
* Adds an example request to the top of the page.
* Relocates several parameters erroneously listed under "Request body"
to the appropriate "Query parameters" section.
* Updates the "Request body" section to better document the NDJSON
structure of msearch requests.
Add default value to each one of the usages of `allow_no_indices`
since it differs between different APIs.
Relates to: #52534
(cherry picked from commit 2eb986488ac326d6da6ab8ad0203a94e08684a36)
This PR adds per-field metadata that can be set in the mappings and is later
returned by the field capabilities API. This metadata is completely opaque to
Elasticsearch but may be used by tools that index data in Elasticsearch to
communicate metadata about fields with tools that then search this data. A
typical example that has been requested in the past is the ability to attach
a unit to a numeric field.
In order to not bloat the cluster state, Elasticsearch requires that this
metadata be small:
- keys can't be longer than 20 chars,
- values can only be numbers or strings of no more than 50 chars - no inner
arrays or objects,
- the metadata can't have more than 5 keys in total.
Given that metadata is opaque to Elasticsearch, field capabilities don't try to
do anything smart when merging metadata about multiple indices, the union of
all field metadatas is returned.
Here is how the meta might look like in mappings:
```json
{
"properties": {
"latency": {
"type": "long",
"meta": {
"unit": "ms"
}
}
}
}
```
And then in the field capabilities response:
```json
{
"latency": {
"long": {
"searchable": true,
"aggreggatable": true,
"meta": {
"unit": [ "ms" ]
}
}
}
}
```
When there are no conflicts, values are arrays of size 1, but when there are
conflicts, Elasticsearch includes all unique values in this array, without
giving ways to know which index has which metadata value:
```json
{
"latency": {
"long": {
"searchable": true,
"aggreggatable": true,
"meta": {
"unit": [ "ms", "ns" ]
}
}
}
}
```
Closes#33267
PR #44238 changed several links related to the Elasticsearch search request body API. This updates several places still using outdated links or anchors.
This will ultimately let us remove some redirects related to those link changes.
File scripts were removed in 6.0 with #24627.
This removes an outdated file scripts reference from the conditional clauses section of the search templates docs.
This rewrites long sort as a `DistanceFeatureQuery`, which can
efficiently skip non-competitive blocks and segments of documents.
Depending on the dataset, the speedups can be 2 - 10 times.
The optimization can be disabled with setting the system property
`es.search.rewrite_sort` to `false`.
Optimization is skipped when an index has 50% or more data with
the same value.
Optimization is done through:
1. Rewriting sort as `DistanceFeatureQuery` which can
efficiently skip non-competitive blocks and segments of documents.
2. Sorting segments according to the primary numeric sort field(#44021)
This allows to skip non-competitive segments.
3. Using collector manager.
When we optimize sort, we sort segments by their min/max value.
As a collector expects to have segments in order,
we can not use a single collector for sorted segments.
We use collectorManager, where for every segment a dedicated collector
will be created.
4. Using Lucene's shared TopFieldCollector manager
This collector manager is able to exchange minimum competitive
score between collectors, which allows us to efficiently skip
the whole segments that don't contain competitive scores.
5. When index is force merged to a single segment, #48533 interleaving
old and new segments allows for this optimization as well,
as blocks with non-competitive docs can be skipped.
Backport for #48804
Co-authored-by: Jim Ferenczi <jim.ferenczi@elastic.co>
All document scores are positive 32-bit floating point numbers. However, this
wasn't previously documented.
This can result in surprising behavior, such as precision loss, for users when
customizing scores using the function score query.
This commit updates an existing admonition in the function score query docs to
document the 32-bits precision limit. It also updates the search API reference
docs to note that `_score` is a 32-bit float.
Customers occasionally discover a known behavior in Elasticsearch's pagination that does not appear to be documented. This warning is intended to educate customers of this behavior while still highlighting alternative solutions.
* [DOCS] Add template docs to scripts. Reorder template examples.
* Adds a 'Search template' section to the 'How to use scripts' chapter.
This links to the 'Search template' chapter for detailed info and
examples.
* Reorders and retitles several examples in the 'Search template'
chapter. This is primarily to make examples for storing, deleting, and
using search templates more prominent.
* Change <templatename> to <templateid>
Several files in the REST APIs nav section are included using
:leveloffset: tags. This increments headings (h2 -> h3, h3 -> h4, etc.)
in those files and removes the :leveloffset: tags.
Other supporting changes:
* Alphabetizes top-level REST API nav items.
* Change 'indices APIs' heading to 'index APIs.'
* Changes 'Snapshot lifecycle management' heading to sentence case.
Moves the following API sections under the REST APIs navigations:
- API Conventions
- Document APIs
- Search APIs
- Index APIs (previously named Indices APIs)
- cat APIs
- Cluster APIs
Other supporting changes:
- Removes the previous index APIs page under REST APIs. Adds a redirect for the removed page.
- Removes several [partintro] macros so the docs build correctly.
- Changes anchors for pages that become sections of a parent page.
- Adds several redirects for existing pages that become sections of a parent page.
This commit re-applies changes from #44238. Changes from that PR were reverted due to broken links in several repos. This commit adds redirects for those broken links.
the geo-bounding-box and phrase-suggest docs were susceptible to
failing due to other indices in the cluster. This change restricts
the queries to the index that is set up for the test.
relates to #43271.
Adding notes to the existing docs about how using `preference` might increase
request cache utilization but also add warning about the downsides.
Closes#24278
This PR updates the docs for `docvalue_fields` and `stored_fields` to clarify
that nested fields must be accessed through `inner_hits`. It also tweaks the
nested fields documentation to make this point more visible.
Addresses #23766.
Today the `_field_caps` API returns the list of indices where a field
is present only if this field has different types within the requested indices.
However if the request is an index pattern (or an alias, or both...) there
is no way to infer the indices if the response contains only fields that have
the same type in all indices. This commit changes the response to always return
the list of indices in the response. It also adds a way to retrieve unmapped field
in a specific section per field called `unmapped`. This section is created for each field
that is present in some indices but not all if the parameter `include_unmapped` is set to
true in the request (defaults to false).
Currently enabling profiling disables top-hits optimizations, which is
unfortunate: it would be nice to be able to notice the difference in method
counts and timings depending on whether total hit counts are requested.
Julie Tibshirani
Lisa Cawley
James Rodewig
Nik Everett
Théophile Helleboid - chtitux
Luca Cavanna
Adrien Grand
Christoph Büscher
Jim Ferenczi
Mark Vieira
Josh Devins
Marios Trivyzas
debadair
Jess
Mayya Sharipova
Orhan Toy
Patrick Maynard
Ian Danforth
István Zoltán Szabó
Takumasa Ochi
Nathan Howard
Jonathan Hult
Emmanuel DEMEY
Jesse Wright
John Murphy
David Kyle
bellengao
Jim Ferenczi
David Turner