The merge service helps improve query performance by consolidating small time partitions into larger, more efficient ones.

Settings

Name	Description	Default
enabled	activates merge service	true
partition_duration_minutes	target width of merged partitions	15
input_aggregation	limits the total source bytes in a single merge job	250000000
max_candidates	limits the total number of merge jobs created at one time	100
max_partitions_per_candidate	limits the total source partitions in a single merge job	10
min_age_mins	ignore files less than this many minutes old	1
max_age_mins	ignore files more than this many minutes old	262800