Have to re-index for content to appear

[Mike Lawson]

Hi all,

We run Confluence v5.9.1 and find that we have to regularly re-index for new content to appear.

If we do not do this, then it can be a while before we see the new content.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi Mike,

look at Administration -> Content Indexing -> Queue Contents 

Is the queue empty? When was indexing started the last time?

Indexing should be processed every minute.

[Mike Lawson]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your reply.

QUEUE IS CURRENTLY IDLE
Queued For Next Processing Run
Number of items in queue: 167
Queue Contents (only first hundred shown)

[Thomas Schlegel]

Seems that the queue is not processing. Do you see errors in the logfile?

There's a troubleshooting page from Atlassian about rebuilding the index: 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-rebuild-the-content-indexes-from-scratch-on-confluence-server-110035351.html

[Mike Lawson]

Thomas, do you know how long it will take for this work to be carried out?

We have just under 8500 items in our database.

I realise it may be a little ball park, it is just so that I have a rough estimate for downtime.

Thanks.

[Mike Lawson]

Hi Thomas,

I will check the log file.  I haven't worked with Confluence for long, it just falls under the remit of my new role at a new company.

Thanks for the link, I will check it out!