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A Demonstration of Cluster Size at Formation and Runtime

Causal Clustering Minimum Core Size At Formation causal_clustering.minimum_core_cluster_size_at_formation is defined as the minimum number of Core machines initially required to form a cluster. The cluster will form when at least…

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Throttling Bolt Requests

When large amounts of data are sent between a Neo4j database and a client (typically large query results, from server to client), there are a few hidden throttling mechanisms that…

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Change logging levels in Neo4j Embedded

In order to change the default logging levels in a Neo4j embedded instance, you must edit/define the configuration file, which is XML. In particular the file is neo4j-logback.xml. The neo4j-logback.xml…

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Checkpointing and Log Pruning interactions

Overview Checkpointing is the process of flushing all pending page updates from the page cache to the store files. This is necessary for ensuring that the number of transactions that…

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Database was successfully initialized, but failed to start

Sometimes when the database does not start it could be something as simple as unnecessary characters in the neo4j.conf file. For example if you add space and/or tab characters to…

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Diagnose storage performance issues

Slow storage can affect Neo4j performance, therefore we recommend using Solid State Drives in the product documentation. Benchmark your underlying system On Ubuntu or RedHat, you can use fio tool…

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Displaying Query CPU Utilization and Allocated Bytes in Query log

In Neo4j 3.3 and prior versions, when query logging is enabled with the following configuration parameters: The log is written with output as shown below: Note that it displays CPU…

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Geocoding with Arcgis

Prerequisites Create/obtain an Arcgis account. Create application within your account. The application will be assigned a 'client_id' and 'secret'. APOC The APOC library provides a apoc.spatial.geocode('address') procedure (as well as…

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How do i configure Neo4j so that data/graph.db/messages.log is automatically rotated

As tested and verified with Neo4j 2.3.0, the data/graph.db/messages.log, its size and number of rotated archives is governed by the following parameters in the conf/neo4j.properties file With the above default…

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How do I enable Java Flight Recorder and view the Results

Java Flight Recorder can be used to capture low level Java properties and run-time data about Java processes, for example Neo4j. Per https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/troubleshoot/tooldescr002.html To enable the Java Flight Recorder the…

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How do I override browser configuration settings

Commencing with Neo4j 3.2.2 one can override default configuration settings of the browser whereby a number of these settings are defined under the left frame and through the 'gears' icon.…

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How do I quickly switch between multiple graphs without modifying neo4j.conf?

If you have multiple graphs set up and want to quickly switch between each without modifying dbms.active_database in conf/neo4j.conf, you can accomplish this with a neo4j restart and with the…

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Increasing Systemd Thread Limits

Problem In some high workload, and large scale multi-database environments, you may find that your Systemd unit configuration limits the maximum number of processes ("tasks") too low for your use…

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Manually Merging neo4j-wrapper.conf into neo4j.conf in Neo4j 3.1

Neo4j 3.1 takes the configuration changes made in Neo4j 3.0 a step further, and ships with a single configuration file: conf/neo4j.conf. This is the result of merging the contents of…

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Manually Migrating Configuration Settings from Neo4j 2.x to Neo4j 3.x

One of the major changes in Neo4j 3.0 was the reworking of configuration files and the individual configuration setting naming convention to make it more consitent and managable going forward.…

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Neo4j Security Benchmark

Overview: This document, Neo4j Security Benchmark, provides prescriptive guidance for establishing a secure configuration posture for Neo4j Enterprise Edition versions 3.5.0 and higher. This guide was tested against Neo4j 3.5.0…

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How to Configure Proxy in Neo4j Desktop

Organizations have proxy settings in order to access the internet or external websites. Neo4j Desktop has a way to setup proxy configuration so one can use their organization’s proxy settings.…

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Resolve TLS certificate errors

TLS encryption is required everywhere. This is a compilation of few errors you can expect while configuring your server. openssl command is required to diagnose or manipulate the certificates. Check…

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How to specify a separate debug.log for the backup process?

When running neo4j-admin backup on a running Neo4j instance the backup logs are also written into the existing Neo4j instance debug.log and can get confusing as to which line items…

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Tuning GC algorithms

Introduction There are several Garbage Collection algorithms available in Java. You can find the supported JDKs in our product requirements section. We will review some of the available GCs and…

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Understanding logical logs and effects of parameters keep_logical_logs and logical_log_rotation_threshold

Neo4j maintains logical logs for incremental backup and cluster consistency. The logical logs are named as follows: When one runs a database backup, via bin/neo4j-backup, if the -to <target directory>…

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Understanding Neo4j Query Plan Caching

This article is based on the behavior of Neo4j 2.3.2. Query plan caching is governed by three parameters, as defined in the conf/neo4j.properties file, which are detailed here. The three…

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When authentication is enabled in Neo4j, how do I call the HA Status

One can enable authentication for the Neo4j database by adding the following to the conf/neo4j-server.properties In doing so any connections to the database will need to provide a username/password. However,…

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Will execution_guard_enabled work in my release of Neo4j?

Background From the beginning, the execution guard was never meant to be used by the general public. However, the feature was there in the product, though undocumented, and it did…

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