IndexPool MBean

The IndexPool MBean exposes metrics around the progress of indexing tasks as they move through the pipeline, and provides a mechanism to tweak the flushing, concurrency, and back-pressure behavior of a core's indexing thread pool.

The IndexPool MBean exposes metrics around the progress of indexing tasks as they move through the pipeline, and provides a mechanism to tweak the flushing, concurrency, and back-pressure behavior of a core indexing thread pool.

The index pool MBean is useful for controlling task submission and flush with these properties:
Configurable concurrency
The maximum number of concurrent workers is predefined at construction time. The actual concurrency can be dynamically configured between 1 (synchronous execution) and the given max concurrency.
Flow control via back pressure
To reduce memory consumption in case of fast producers, back pressure throttles incoming tasks based on a configurable queue threshold and max pause per task. The implementation is re-entrant if a worker submits a task on the pool, the task is not subjected to any pause.

Path 

The index pool MBean is identified by the following path:
com.datastax.bdp.search.keyspace_name.table_name.IndexPool
where:
  • search is the Mbean type
  • keyspace_name.table_name is the search core that the metrics reference
  • IndexPool is the MBean name
For example:

IndexPool MBean attributes that you can modify 

The attributes are effective only until the node is restarted. To make the change permanent, you must change the corresponding option in dse.yaml.
FlushMaxTime
The maximum time, in milliseconds, to wait before flushing asynchronous index updates, which occurs at Solr commit time or at Cassandra flush time. In dse.yaml (in minutes): flush_max_time_per_core.
BackPressureThreshold
The back pressure threshold is the target total number of queued asynchronous indexing requests per core; the back pressure mechanism will throttle incoming requests to keep the queue size as close to the threshold as possible. In dse.yaml: back_pressure_threshold_per_core.
Concurrency
The maximum number of concurrent asynchronous indexing threads. In dse.yaml: max_solr_concurrency_per_core.

IndexPool MBean view-only attributes 

You can get the following MBean operations:
BackPressurePauseNanos
Get the average back pressure pause.
BackPressurePauseOutliers
The number of tasks from the scheduled document expiration job or re-indexing that pause longer than the configured maximum pause time.
IncomingRate
Get the 1-minute rate of ingested tasks per second.
MaxConcurrency
Get the predefined max concurrency level.
OutgoingRate
Get the 1-minute rate of processed tasks per second.
ProcessedTasks
Get the total number of processed tasks for all workers.
QueueSize
Get the current size of each processing queues.
QueueWeight
The total weight of all in-flight indexing tasks.
TaskProcessingTimeNanos
Get the last processing time for all workers. Could be 0 in case the clock resolution is too coarse.
Throughput
The 1-minute rate of work throughput per second.
TotalQueueSize
Get the total size of all processing queues. Should be lower than QueueWeight
The location of the dse.yaml file depends on the type of installation:
Installer-Services /etc/dse/dse.yaml
Package installations /etc/dse/dse.yaml
Installer-No Services install_location/resources/dse/conf/dse.yaml
Tarball installations install_location/resources/dse/conf/dse.yaml