I’ve written a few posts on Sitecore Content Search and Solr already, but there seems to be an infinite amount of things to discover and learn in this area. Previously I’ve pointed out the importance of configuring the Solr index correctly and the benefit of picking the fields to index, i.e. not indexing all fields as default (<indexAllFields>false</indexAllFields>
). This will vastly improve the performance of Content Search operations and reduce the index size in large solutions.
Recently I’ve been investigating a performance issue with one of our Sitecore solutions. This one is running Sitecore 9 with quite a lot of data in it. It’s been performing quite well, but as the client were loading more data into it, it got a lot slower. Our metrics also showed the response time (P95) in the data center that got quite high. It measured around 500 ms instead of the normal 100 ms.
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