Database performace has degraded considerable after upgrading to 7.1

[agriesser (Alexander Griesser)]

Hi @egleed and welcome to the Mattermost forums!

This might be related to the Insights feature introduced with 7.1 and a few days ago, Mattermost posted an announcement that they’re thinking about revising the feature and suggest to disable it if you experience performance issues:

Proposal to revise our Insights feature due to known performance issues

The Insights feature was released in v7.1. Since its release, we’ve been excited about the community’s enthusiasm for the feature. However, we have identified some performance issues that we have been working to optimize. We recommend disabling the feature by setting the MM_FEATUREFLAGS_INSIGHTSENABLED environment variable to false as we continue to identify and address issues. With quality and performance being our most important focus, we are considering replacing this feature with new soluti…