Technologies/Elasticsearch/elasticsearch.node.pipeline.ingest.documents.current
ElasticsearchElasticsearchMetric

elasticsearch.node.pipeline.ingest.documents.current

Pipeline ingest current
Dimensions:None
Available on:OpenTelemetryOpenTelemetry (1)

Summary

Indicates documents currently being processed by specific ingest pipelines. This per-pipeline metric reveals which pipelines have the highest concurrency or slowest processing. The ML inference bottleneck insight highlights how processor-heavy pipelines can accumulate in-flight documents, indicating throughput limits requiring pipeline optimization or scaling.

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OpenTelemetryOpenTelemetry
Total number of documents currently being ingested by a pipeline.
Dimensions:None
Related Insights (1)
Ingest Pipeline Processing Bottleneckwarning

Complex ingest pipelines with processors like grok, script, or ML inference can significantly slow document indexing, causing backpressure and increased latency.