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diff --git a/src/docs/user/cluster/cluster.diviner b/src/docs/user/cluster/cluster.diviner
--- a/src/docs/user/cluster/cluster.diviner
+++ b/src/docs/user/cluster/cluster.diviner
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
| **SSH Servers** | Minimal | Low | No Risk | Low
| **Web Servers** | Minimal | **High** | No Risk | Moderate
| **Notifications** | Minimal | Low | No Risk | Low
+| **Fulltext Search** | Moderate | **High** | Minimal Risk | Moderate
See below for a walkthrough of these services in greater detail.
@@ -237,6 +238,33 @@
For details, see @{article:Cluster: Notifications}.
+Cluster: Fulltext Search
+========================
+
+At a certain scale, you may begin to bump up against the limitations of MySQL's
+built-in fulltext search capabilities. We have seen this with very large
+installations with several million objects in the database and very many
+simultaneous requests. At this point you may consider adding Elasticsearch
+hosts to your cluster to reduce the load on your MySQL hosts.
+
+Elasticsearch has the ability to spread the load across multiple hosts and can
+handle very large indexes by sharding.
+
+Search does not involve any risk of data lost because it's always possible to
+rebuild the search index from the original database objects. This process can
+be very time consuming, however, especially when the database grows very large.
+
+With multiple Elasticsearch hosts, you can survive the loss of a single host
+with minimal disruption as Phabricator will detect the problem and direct
+queries to one of the remaining hosts.
+
+Phabricator supports writing to multiple indexing servers. This Simplifies
+Elasticsearch upgrades and makes it possible to recover more quickly from
+problems with the search index.
+
+For details, see @{article:Cluster: Search}.
+
+
Overlaying Services
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