Zero Downtime Reimports

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While working in production, to keep your existing search experience available while reimporting your data, we recommend the usage of the scout:reimport Artisan command:

$
php artisan scout:reimport

This Artisan command will output the following content:

To ensure that searches performed on the index during the rebuild will not be interrupted, Scout Extended uses a temporary index to import all records before moving the temporary index to the production index.

If you are using the Free/Community plan, please verify if you have enough records available in your account to execute the operation.