GlossaryΒΆ
- track
- A track is the description of one ore more benchmarking scenarios with a specific document corpus. It defines for example the involved indices, data files and which operations are invoked. List the available tracks with
esrally list tracks
. Although Rally ships with some tracks out of the box, you should usually create your own track based on your own data. - challenge
- A challenge describes one benchmarking scenario, for example indexing documents at maximum throughput with 4 clients while issuing term and phrase queries from another two clients rate-limited at 10 queries per second each. It is always specified in the context of a track. See the available challenges by listing the corresponding tracks with
esrally list tracks
. - car
- A car is a specific configuration of an Elasticsearch cluster that is benchmarked, for example the out-of-the-box configuration, a configuration with a specific heap size or a custom logging configuration. List the available cars with
esrally list cars
. - telemetry
- Telemetry is used in Rally to gather metrics about the car, for example CPU usage or index size.
- race
- A race is one invocation of the Rally binary. Another name for that is one “benchmarking trial”. During a race, Rally runs one challenge on a track with the given car.
- tournament
- A tournament is a comparison of two races. You can use Rally’s tournament mode for that.