Crazy Billing On Elastic Search

johnkinyanjui
HOBBY

2 days ago

So i wanted to host an elastic search app on railway.app, i deployed it and did not use it yet but what is happening here, well already paid am gonna delete it for now cause am worried might end up being in the thousands if left uncheck

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johnkinyanjui
HOBBY

2 days ago

6faf7a51-2b7a-4177-9a19-28958a647dce


domexx
PRO

2 days ago

Elasticsearch is written in java. Idk if u ever used it, but its very resource hungry


domexx
PRO

2 days ago

So that billing should be right. @jakes


johnkinyanjui
HOBBY

2 days ago

i know elastic search is resource heavy but the resource usage is way above the usual and i have used it before


domexx
PRO

2 days ago

nah thats normal, u can tweak the elasticsearch settings or limit the resources of the service


domexx
PRO

2 days ago

if left unconfigured, it takes way more than needed


domexx
PRO

2 days ago

idk for what u use it, but there are some less hungry alternatives like meilisearch, depends on ur use case


johnkinyanjui
HOBBY

2 days ago

just for a logging stack with grafana alloy


2 days ago

Please note that those values are accumulative.