This Article mentions a setting named cluster.routing.use_adaptive_replica_selection which may reduce latency by sending queries to replicas which are less busy, rather than simply round-robin-ing them.
ARS is available in Elasticsearch 6.1 and later, but is turned off by default in all 6.x releases. It can be turned on dynamically by changing the cluster.routing.use_adaptive_replica_selection setting:
This Article mentions a setting named
cluster.routing.use_adaptive_replica_selection
which may reduce latency by sending queries to replicas which are less busy, rather than simply round-robin-ing them.