Why monitoring your search engine matters...

One of our users reached out recently with a familiar problem: search had suddenly become noticeably slower, even though nothing looked obviously broken. The service was up, no errors in the logs, CPU usage looked normal — yet users were starting to complain that results felt sluggish. This is how search problems usually show up in production. Not with a dramatic outage, but as a slow, creeping degradation. A little more traffic here, some extra indexing there, and before you know it, performanc