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These settings are available in system.settings and are autogenerated from source.

max_skip_unavailable_shards_num

When skip_unavailable_shards is enabled, limits the maximum number of shards that can be silently skipped. If the number of unavailable shards exceeds this value, an exception is thrown instead of silently skipping. A value of 0 means no limit on the count. On a read, skipping every shard before any of them returned data still throws ALL_CONNECTION_TRIES_FAILED, because such a query has no partial result to return. This limit applies to reads only.

max_skip_unavailable_shards_ratio

When skip_unavailable_shards is enabled, limits the maximum ratio (0 to 1) of shards that can be silently skipped. If the ratio of unavailable shards to total shards exceeds this value, an exception is thrown instead of silently skipping. A value of 0 means no limit on the ratio. On a read, skipping every shard before any of them returned data still throws ALL_CONNECTION_TRIES_FAILED, because such a query has no partial result to return. This limit applies to reads only.
Last modified on October 11, 2026