topic Re: REST query performance in ONTAP Rest API Discussions

REST query performance

ukauf — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:57:37 GMT

I basically need to get the metadata from all files on a volume, so I need to query every file. Somtimes I get roughly 2 results in a second and sometimes I get maybe up to 8 results in a second (FAS8300). Are there some settings on the Filer that can be tuned or any other ideas to speed this up?

Re: REST query performance

RossC — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 03:26:06 GMT

Hey @ukauf

You may want to review this docs article - https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-automation/rest/object_references_and_access.html#accessing-an-object-using-an-object-property

It speaks to some performance issues under certain conditions, and that we do have a return_timeout value you can manage. Beyond that I am not aware of any additional tuning you can do, however another community member might have additional inputs here.

We have an #ontap-api channel on our Discord where you might also get an answer to your query. More info about Discord here, https://community.netapp.com/t5/Digital-Support/The-Official-NetApp-Discord/ba-p/170915/

Re: REST query performance

ukauf — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 06:28:41 GMT

Thanks Ross, it is basically the

api/storage/volumes/volid/files/?return_metadata=true

that seems not to be optimized. Other queries return results much faster.