# Cratedb daily IOPS0 spikes

**URL:** https://community.cratedb.com/t/cratedb-daily-iops0-spikes/1309
**Category:** CrateDB
**Created:** [December 14, 2022, 10:41am UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/cratedb-daily-iops0-spikes/1309 "2022-12-14T10:41:11Z")
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### Author: ![Aymen\_hassine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Aymen\_hassine](https://community.cratedb.com/u/Aymen_hassine)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2022, 10:41am UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/cratedb-daily-iops0-spikes/1309/1 "2022-12-14T10:41:11Z")

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Hello Everyone,

We are monitoring one of our production cluster with grafana/prometheus for a data streaming pipeline using kafka/storm and cratedb and noticed a daily IOPS spikes for cratedb, so we are trying to understand whether if this is related to one of the crateDB core tasks like stats.service.interval or udc.interval or other services that could cause a high IOPS.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/crate/original/1X/51d4e4e394e18512e4b7a787ba7212e4e1cc8f9c.png)

Any thoughts are appreciated.  
Thank you

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### Author: ![Walter\_Behmann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.cratedb.com/walter_behmann/32/117_2.png) [@Walter\_Behmann](https://community.cratedb.com/u/Walter_Behmann)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2022, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/cratedb-daily-iops0-spikes/1309/2 "2022-12-14T14:32:22Z")

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Hey there, thanks for flying with CrateDB!

Most likely this is triggered by [Cluster-wide settings — CrateDB: Reference](https://crate.io/docs/crate/reference/en/5.0/config/cluster.html#stats-service-interval).

Throttling of this is already merged [https://github.com/crate/crate/pull/13046](https://github.com/crate/crate/pull/13046). Which version are you running?

regards,  
Walter

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### Author: ![Aymen\_hassine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Aymen\_hassine](https://community.cratedb.com/u/Aymen_hassine)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/cratedb-daily-iops0-spikes/1309/3 "2022-12-14T15:16:10Z")

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Thank you for your prompt reply.  
We are currently using cratedb 4.6.6
