Getting the most out of your search deployment isn't just about writing the perfect query; it's about ensuring the underlying system is perfectly sized for your workload. For many, this has meant facing a difficult choice. If your search indexes are large but your query and indexing rates are moderate, you may have been forced to scale up to more expensive, higher-tiered nodes simply to get the storage capacity you need. This often leads to overprovisioning compute resources and unnecessary costs.