Why Is My Elasticsearch Cluster Using 99% Memory? Sharding, Translog & JVM Insights
This article analyzes a 7‑node Elasticsearch cluster with 500 million documents, revealing excessive shard count, high heap and OS memory usage, large translog, low query‑cache hit rate, and heavy I/O, and offers concrete recommendations on mapping, sharding, JVM tuning, and resource management to restore performance.
