The preceding recipes have shown the scalability of the SharePoint Search infrastructure. Search topology is robust and flexible. As the needs of the organization grow, Search can scale.
The question becomes a matter of when, not if, Search must be scaled. It is also a question of where (which components) to scale Search.
The answers to these questions are found in the set of reports that ship with SharePoint 2010. There are two basic types of search administration reports:
Reports that address query processing. These reports show the latency of the queries.
Reports that show information about the crawler. These reports show processing in the queue, per component, per content source, and per type.
In this recipe, we will show how to view and find them.
