FIRE storage explorer in the console #

The web console (/_ui/) gained a FIRE storage explorer: drill from a node’s shards down to a single segment’s .fire files and see exactly where the bytes go — a per-field cost treemap of the columnar FIRE storage, next to the inverted index and stored-field payloads. In the screenshot above, the collection’s Storage tab sizes every field by its on-disk cost, each block split into storage categories — so the question “which field is eating my disk” is answered by the biggest rectangle on screen.

It makes questions like “which field is eating my disk” or “how much would dropping this field save” answerable by looking instead of by scripting against the raw data directory. The underlying per-shard data is served by the node storage APIs (/_node/_local/storage, per-shard .../storage), the same surface the collection Storage tab uses.

Open the console on any node, pick a shard, and start digging.