Workload Unit Spike Mystery

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In a 24-hour period (Dec 11, 11am - Dec 12, 11am), the dev Workload Units significantly spiked. I had not made any changes to my app prior to that, nor after that, so I don’t think I did anything that “turned it on” nor “turned it off”.

I don’t understand why the increased usage doesn’t show up in the Server Logs.

For instance, using the App Metrics for Dec 12, 942am, it shows 684 searches:

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The server logs for that time window (+/- 1 minute), shows no activity with all logs selected:

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Here is the 24-hour workload usage showing the usage ramp up, flatline, then ramp back down.

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How can I troubleshoot this if nothing is showing in the Server Logs? I need to know what is causing the spike prior to deploying live.

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You have logs selected for ‘Dev’ but probably want to select them for ‘Live’.

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The “spike” is in the ‘Dev’ Workload Units, updated screenshot below. But looking into the App Metric, I guess it isn’t showing in the Server Logs because the source that’s causing it isn’t a Workflow, it is a “Data Source: Search for…”

The Thing it is searching for only has 9 items in the ‘Dev’ database, but the Workload Usage shows in a 1-minute Window there were 684 Searches done. I don’t understand how that is possible.

My understanding is that 684 Searches / 9 Items = 76 Actual Searches / 60 sec = 1.3 Searches per Second.

If it was being “triggered” by a Workflow, that would show up in the server log, but it isn’t.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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Are you using any fuzzy search plugins?

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Yes (zeroqode Search and Autocorrect), but it isn’t in the group where the Search For is happening. Could that still be causing a problem?

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Depends. What are the settings of the plugin?

The way the plugin works when you plug a Search as it’s data source, is it will load everything matching those constraints.

This applies to most plugins too unless they have some sort of pagination built in.

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Also if you have any search constraints it will trigger a new search each time you change any of the constraint’s values

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