diff --git a/_benchmark/glossary.md b/_benchmark/glossary.md index ee4ca5a06b..09a52df8e7 100644 --- a/_benchmark/glossary.md +++ b/_benchmark/glossary.md @@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ nav_order: 10 The following terms are commonly used in OpenSearch Benchmark: - **Corpora**: A collection of documents. -- **Latency**: If `target-throughput` is disabled (has no value or a value of `0)`, latency is equivalent to service time. If `target-throughput` is enabled (has a value of 1 or greater), latency is the service time plus the time the request waits in the queue before being sent. -- **Metric keys**: The metrics that OpenSearch Benchmark stores, based on the configuration in the [metrics record]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/benchmark/metrics/metric-records/). +- **Latency**: If `target-throughput` is disabled (has no value or a value of `0)`, then latency is equivalent to service time. If `target-throughput` is enabled (has a value of 1 or greater), then latency is equal to the service time plus the amount of time the request waits in the queue before being sent. +- **Metric keys**: The metrics stored by OpenSearch Benchmark, based on the configuration in the [metrics record]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/benchmark/metrics/metric-records/). - **Operations**: In workloads, a list of API operations performed by a workload. -- **Pipeline**: A series of steps occurring before and after a workload is run that determines benchmark results. +- **Pipeline**: A series of steps occurring both before and after running a workload that determines benchmark results. - **Schedule**: A list of two or more operations performed in the order they appear when a workload is run. -- **Service time**: The amount of time that it takes for `opensearch-py`, the primary client for OpenSearch Benchmark, to send a request and receive a response from the OpenSearch cluster. It includes the amount of time that it takes for the server to process a request and also network latency, load balancer overhead, and deserialization/serialization. -- **Summary report**: A report output at the end a test based on the metric keys defined in the workload. +- **Service time**: The amount of time taken for `opensearch-py`, the primary client for OpenSearch Benchmark, to send a request and receive a response from the OpenSearch cluster. It includes the amount of time taken for the server to process a request as well as for network latency, load balancer overhead, and deserialization/serialization. +- **Summary report**: A report generated at the end of a test based on the metric keys defined in the workload. - **Test**: A single invocation of the OpenSearch Benchmark binary. - **Throughput**: The number of operations completed in a given period of time. -- **Workload**: A collection of one or more benchmarking tests that use a specific document corpus to perform a benchmark against your cluster. The document corpus contains any indexes, data files, and operations invoked when the workload runs. \ No newline at end of file +- **Workload**: A collection of one or more benchmarking tests that use a specific document corpus to perform a benchmark against a cluster. The document corpus contains any indexes, data files, or operations invoked when the workload runs. \ No newline at end of file