Compaction control #6516
Description
Coverage Gap: Compaction control and failures
Finding
Several questions seek ways to manually start compaction, clean up failed compaction plans, or gauge how long a cluster runs if the compactor is offline. Documentation only covers automated scheduling, giving no commands, recovery steps, or tolerance guidelines, so the bot could not provide concrete answers.
Suggestion
Clearly document whether InfluxDB 3 Enterprise exposes CLI/API commands to trigger compaction, remove failed plans, and define operational limits when a compactor is down; if unavailable, state this explicitly and outline recommended recovery workflows.
Conversations
- is there a way to manually start a compaction job on Enterprise3
- if compactor goes down, how long can cluster operate normally
- Can I manually trigger compaction in influxdb v3 enterprise?
- How to delete a compaction plan failed?
Relevant URLs
View coverage gap:
https://app.kapa.ai/720100f9-ce93-4305-88fd-5fcf71effad7/coverage-gaps/clusters/dd797c6e-ccd6-4adb-9777-0279c61b1101