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Summary

Updates the Entity Store troubleshooting section in solutions/security/advanced-entity-analytics/entity-store.md to cover the log extraction tunables added in 9.4.2 (elastic/kibana#269482, elastic/kibana#270180) and refreshes the maxLogsPerPage default to reflect the 9.4.2 value bump (elastic/kibana#270617).

What's new in the section

  • maxLogsPerWindow — per-task-run total-volume cap (new in 9.4.2). Documented as the most effective lever for protecting a cluster from sudden ingest spikes, because it bounds the work a single extraction task can do regardless of how many slices the window is split into.
  • maxLogsPerWindowCapBehavior — new in 9.4.2. Documents both drop (default, cluster-health-first) and defer (coverage-first) modes and the coverage-vs-freshness trade-off between them.
  • maxLogsPerPage default — version-gated to show 40000 for 9.4.0–9.4.1 and 50000 for 9.4.2

Why now

We've seen multiple SDHs (#1675, #9945, EOG, plus internal Infosec) where Entity Store v2 extraction overwhelmed hot data nodes after 9.4.0. The 9.4.2 knobs are the supported mitigation path; this page is where Support and customers look first.

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  • New fields are gated serverless: planned to match the rest of the troubleshoot section. Once the Serverless rollout date is known, update accordingly.

Adds troubleshooting entries for the per-window volume cap introduced in
9.4.2 (maxLogsPerWindow, maxLogsPerWindowCapBehavior) and version-gates
the maxLogsPerPage default to reflect the 9.4.3 value bump.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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@natasha-moore-elastic we would also like to add a recommendation:

Note for CCS users: Entity Analytics ingests logs from every remote cluster. To avoid unnecessary load, please disable EA on any remote cluster where it isn't actively used

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