From 3c17f90d5083adcff78c9cedda7fb0866641c888 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlada Chirmicci Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:56:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Highlight importance of batching index requests Updating the billing dimensions documentation to add information on ingest VCU scaling and strategies for reducing costs by recommending `_bulk` requests. Fixes [#1307](https://github.com/elastic/docs-content-internal/issues/1307) --- .../billing/elasticsearch-billing-dimensions.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/elasticsearch-billing-dimensions.md b/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/elasticsearch-billing-dimensions.md index 504befa4b3..f50e8a33be 100644 --- a/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/elasticsearch-billing-dimensions.md +++ b/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/elasticsearch-billing-dimensions.md @@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ You can control costs using the following strategies: * **Machine learning trained model autoscaling**: [Trained model autoscaling](/deploy-manage/autoscaling/trained-model-autoscaling.md) is always enabled and cannot be disabled, ensuring efficient resource usage, reduced costs, and optimal performance without manual configuration. Trained model deployments automatically scale down to zero allocations after 24 hours without any inference requests. When they scale up again, they remain active for 5 minutes before they can scale down. During these cooldown periods, you will continue to be billed for the active resources. +* **Ingest VCU scaling**: Ingest VCU consumption scales with your indexing load. After 15 minutes with no ingest activity, ingest capacity scales down to zero and ingest charges are minimal during idle periods. Continuous indexing requests prevent idle windows, so ingest VCUs remain provisioned and you continue to incur costs. + + Where your use case allows, batch documents into fewer, larger [`_bulk`]({{cloud-serverless-apis}}operation/operation-bulk) requests and group indexing into scheduled batches to maximize idle time and reduce ingest VCU usage. * **Indexing strategies**: Consider your indexing strategies and how they might impact overall VCU usage and costs. To ensure optimal performance and cost-effectiveness for your project, it's important to consider how you structure your data.