Welcome! In this post I'd like to cover testing the I/O performance of your indexer to its storage sub-system.

'After the party, it's the hotel lobby'

You can think of your indexer as the lobby of a busy hotel with the hotel guests being your data. In this hotel, guests are constantly streaming into the lobby (raw event data). At the same time, guests are frequently leaving the hotel (search queries) to go on around the city, either periodically in buses (scheduled saved searches) or in an ad-hoc manner by taxi (user searches). To prevent the lobby from filling up from the...