"search" pages loading extremely slowly and causing browser to go unresponsive

Hello,

I might be able to help. Need to ask a couple question that may pertain to web loading problems.

  • How much logs are you ingesting per hour/day?
  • What does you index setting look like? or do you have multiply index sets beside the default ones?
  • What are you log retention settings?
  • Do you have a lot of extractors configured? if so what type and how many do you have?
  • How’s your JAVA heap setting for Graylog?

Judging from your Environmental information, If you have a lot of logs being ingested you know elasticsearch is resource intensive. That why most community member separate ES from Graylog/MongoDb in a situation like that. I have seen in some situation where they have over sharded there server causing a lag and unresponsive interface. You can find out why here