Set the Continuous Crawl Interval in SharePoint 2016

Question

I ran below command to set the Continuous Crawl Interval in SharePoint 2016:

$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
$interval = "1"
$ssa.SetProperty("ContinuousCrawlInterval", [int]$interval)

But in Search service application, content source "Local SharePoint sites" does not showing any interval set. Even on Search Administration page no Recent crawl rate and no Searchable items shows and in Crawl Log page everything shows 0. Please guide.

Answer 1

You can try below powershell code:

$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
$cs = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication $ssa -Identity "Local SharePoint sites"
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -Identity $cs -EnableContinuousCrawls $True


$ssa.SetProperty("ContinuousCrawlInterval", 1)
$ssa.Update()

Reference- Enable continuous crawls with PowerShell