From 07ccab9766a6289326676a4814537564f25f35fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ekaterina Vaartis Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 20:27:16 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Add search/meilisearch documentation --- docs/configuration/search.md | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 99 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/configuration/search.md diff --git a/docs/configuration/search.md b/docs/configuration/search.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..14ec2bc63 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/configuration/search.md @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +# Configuring search + +{! backend/administration/CLI_tasks/general_cli_task_info.include !} + +## Built-in search + +To use built-in search that has no external dependencies, set the search module to `Pleroma.Activity`: + +> config :pleroma, Pleroma.Search, module: Pleroma.Activity + +While it has no external dependencies, it has problems with performance and relevancy. + +## Meilisearch + +To use [meilisearch](https://www.meilisearch.com/), set the search module to `Pleroma.Search.Meilisearch`: + +> config :pleroma, Pleroma.Search, module: Pleroma.Search.Meilisearch + +You then need to set the address of the meilisearch instance, and optionally the private key for authentication. + +> config :pleroma, Pleroma.Search.Meilisearch, +> url: "http://127.0.0.1:7700/", +> private_key: "private key" + +Information about setting up meilisearch can be found in the +[official documentation](https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/getting_started/installation.html). +You probably want to start it with `MEILI_NO_ANALYTICS=true` and `MEILI_NO_CENTRY=true` environment variables, +to disable analytics. + +### Private key authentication (optional) + +To set the private key, use the `MEILI_MASTER_KEY` environment variable when starting. After setting the _master key_, +you have to get the _private key_, which is actually used for authentication. + +=== "OTP" + ```sh + ./bin/pleroma_ctl search.meilisearch show-private-key + ``` + +=== "From Source" + ```sh + mix pleroma.search.meilisearch show-private-key + ``` + +This is the key you actually put into your configuration file. + +### Initial indexing + +After setting up the configuration, you'll want to index all of your already existsing posts. Only public posts are indexed. You'll only +have to do it one time, but it might take a while, depending on the amount of posts your instance has seen. This is also a fairly RAM +consuming process for `meilisearch`, and it will take a lot of RAM when running if you have a lot of posts (seems to be around 5G for ~1.2 +million posts while idle and up to 7G while indexing initially, but your experience may be different). + +To start te initial indexing, run the `index` command: + +=== "OTP" + ```sh + ./bin/pleroma_ctl search.meilisearch index + ``` + +=== "From Source" + ```sh + mix pleroma.search.meilisearch index + ``` + +This will show you the total amount of posts to index, and then show you the amount of posts indexed currently, until the numbers eventually +become the same. The posts are indexed in big batches and meilisearch will take some time to actually index them, even after you have +inserted all the posts into it. Depending on the amount of posts, this may be as long as several hours. To get information about the status +of indexing and how many posts have actually been indexed, use the `stats` command: + +=== "OTP" + ```sh + ./bin/pleroma_ctl search.meilisearch stats + ``` + +=== "From Source" + ```sh + mix pleroma.search.meilisearch stats + ``` + +### Clearing the index + +In case you need to clear the index (for example, to re-index from scratch, if that needs to happen for some reason), you can +use the `clear` command: + +=== "OTP" + ```sh + ./bin/pleroma_ctl search.meilisearch clear + ``` + +=== "From Source" + ```sh + mix pleroma.search.meilisearch clear + ``` + +This will clear **all** the posts from the search index. Note, that deleted posts are also removed from index by the instance itself, so +there is no need to actually clear the whole index, unless you want **all** of it gone. That said, the index does not hold any information +that cannot be re-created from the database, it should also generally be a lot smaller than the size of your database. Still, the size +depends on the amount of text in posts.