Learn about full sync and incremental sync for connectors. Discover how incremental sync can boost the performance of Elastic connectors.

Elastic Connectors overview

Connectors content synchronization jobs

1. Full syncs

2. Incremental syncs

Potential optimizations for incremental sync

Fetch fewer documents from 3rd-party systems

Skip download of content of files that haven't changed since previous sync

Skip ingestion of non-modified documents into Elasticsearch

Measuring incremental sync performance

Performance tests

Setup #1 - Google Drive Connector

Setup #2: GitHub connector

Key takeaways

Summary

Elastic Connectors are a type of Elastic integrations that sync data from an original data source to an Elasticsearch index. Connectors enable you to create searchable, read-only replicas of your data sources.

What are Elastic Connectors?

Elastic Connectors: Performance impact of incremental syncs

Author

Artem Shelkovnikov

Articles

Elastic Connectors: Performance impact of incremental syncs