Jira Index

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Atlassian

Troubleshooting

Index Size

Re-Index

Bibliography

Jira uses a Lucene index stored on the root volume of the Jira cluster nodes. e.g. in...

/var/atlassian/application-data/jira/caches/indexesV1

Troubleshooting

If you experience an outage of a Jira node and when reinstated you appear to be missing Tasks/Issues don't assume data has been lost. The application gets its data from a local Lucene index. The Lucene index acts as a cache for the database. If data is lost from the Lucene index, rebuilding the index will pull the data from the database.

It is recommended to be on a mimum Jira version of 8.19 (JSD/JSM 4.19) to avoid known bugs related to Indexing.

Index Size

Navigate to the JIRA_HOME directory and run the following (for linux)...

du -h /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/caches/indexesV1/

Re-Index

Administration - System - (L) ADVANCED - (L) Indexing

Bibliography

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/understand-the-index-process-in-jira-server-776654790.htmlhttps://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/ERROR-Node-re-index-service-is-not-running/qaq-p/1659886https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-72125https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Perform-Index-Recovery-on-JIRA-Startup-if-current-Index-invalid/qaq-p/1009243https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/increase-speed-of-reindexing-in-jira-server-826879636.htmlhttps://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/search-indexing-938847710.html