Hi, 

We are currently using a high amount of reads on the cloudant platform. We are constantly checking for changes, using the _changes feed using the following parameters:

include_docs=true
filter=monitor/personnel_prebooked
feed=continuous
heartbeat=5000

We are using a massive amount of reads here and we're trying to understand why - our use case is that we are looking for changes on the platform and if we locate changes then we sync them locally.

Right now we have around 6000-8000 systems running this sync and we're hitting several thousand reads a second which is absolutely excessive for the usage that I think we have here. 

I've been led to believe that the changes feed is what we need but I need to drastically cut down the number of reads - where am I best to start? 

Cheers 

Chris

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Chris Boot
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Hi, is there anyone who can offer any tips with this?

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Chris Boot
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Original Message:
Sent: Mon May 30, 2022 08:26 AM
From: Chris Boot
Subject: Cloudant Changes Feed Polling

Hi, 

We are currently using a high amount of reads on the cloudant platform. We are constantly checking for changes, using the _changes feed using the following parameters:

include_docs=true
filter=monitor/personnel_prebooked
feed=continuous
heartbeat=5000

We are using a massive amount of reads here and we're trying to understand why - our use case is that we are looking for changes on the platform and if we locate changes then we sync them locally.

Right now we have around 6000-8000 systems running this sync and we're hitting several thousand reads a second which is absolutely excessive for the usage that I think we have here. 

I've been led to believe that the changes feed is what we need but I need to drastically cut down the number of reads - where am I best to start? 

Cheers 

Chris

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Chris Boot
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