Changing App Service plan level on Azure makes meilisearch unresponsive
Shows how to fix changing App Service plan level on Azure makes meilisearch unresponsive. Use it when you hit this exact problem. Skip it when your error message or symptom looks different.
TL;DR
Use a local persistent disk instead; the team opened a docs issue to fix the template. All in all the whole application just becomes unusable and needs to be completely deleted.
Steps
- [Kerollmops (maintainer)]: The task-queue corruption on Azure App Service comes from storage: the one-click template puts Meilisearch's data on a network share, and the LMDB backend does not support network filesystems. Changing the App Service plan moves the data and corrupts the DB. Use a local persistent disk instead; the team opened a docs issue to fix the template.
When to use
You are seeing this: Issue meilisearch/meilisearch#4123 (closed, 21 comments): Describe the bug When deploying Meilisearch on Azure with the one click template in the documentation and then changing the App Service Plan level, the application becomes "kind of" unresponsive. Use this skill when you run into "Changing App Service plan level on Azure makes meilisearch unresponsive".
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