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SharePoint 2013 : Search service overall state: Degraded

Hello Experts,

Need your help to figure this out, the search status report is showing "Search service overall state: Degraded " ? Every thing is fine. crawl is optimal, newly uploaded documents are searchable but when I run the famous Get-SPFarmInfo.ps1 to check the search status, I get this Degraded at the end of the script.
Degraded can be due to the warning towards the end of the script output as shown in italic below but not sure which timer jobs its complaining about. Any help will be appreciated.

Analytics Processing Job Status:
SearchAnalytics : Idle
Last successful start time: 6/25/2015 12:00:03 AM
Warning: More than three days since last successful run
Last completed time: 6/25/2015 1:12:59 AM
Last failed time: 4/24/2015 11:50:44 PM
Next scheduled run time: 6/25/2015 2:00:04 AM
UsageAnalytics : Idle
Last successful start time: 6/25/2015 1:00:00 AM
Warning: More than three days since last successful run
Last completed time: 6/25/2015 1:18:48 AM
Last failed time: 4/25/2015 1:30:28 AM
SearchReports : Idle
Last successful start time: 6/24/2015 9:10:01 PM
Warning: More than three days since last successful run
Last completed time: 6/24/2015 9:10:51 PM
Next scheduled run time: 6/24/2015 11:10:01 PM

I see a solution here but what timer job exactly we need that is not running from the last few days and causing this warning ?
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/bee91ee6-d6a2-40f3-b8c8-0e128090a26f/sharepoint-2013-search-timer-job-missing-and-not-running?forum=sharepointsearch


Both of these command return nothing: but that is same in all our farms.
Get-SPTimerJob -Type Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Analytics.AnalyticsJobDefinition
get-sptimerjob -type microsoft.office.server.search.analytics.usageanalyticsjobdefinition

Thanks.

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Some additional information found, In environment with the issue I am seeing less number of timer jobs for search when compare with a working environment. How can i bring those missing jobs back with out recreating SSA.

Jobs that are available
Analytics Event Store Retention
Health Statistics Updating
Indexing Schedule Manager on Server2
Indexing Schedule Manager on Server1
Prepare query suggestions
Query Logging
Search Health Monitoring - Trace Events
Software Quality Metrics reporting for Search

Missing jobs:
Analytics Timer Job for Search Service Application Search Service Application 1
Crawl Log Cleanup for Search Application Search Service Application 1.
Rebalance crawl store partitions for Search Service Application 1
Search Custom Dictionaries Update
Query Classification Dictionary Update for Search Application Search Service Application 1.
Rebalance crawl store partitions for Search Service Application 1
Search Custom Dictionaries Update
Spelling Customizations Upgrade
Spelling Dictionary Update
Usage Analytics Timer Job for Search Application Search Service Application

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@UmrF ,

Could you please share here the result of exectuing the below commands in your farm?

 $ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
 Get-SPEnterpriseSearchStatus -SearchApplication $ssa -TEXT
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Its pretty large search topology with several components in it. all components are active and green on search administration page.

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Hi @UmrF,

As per my knowledge, the same kind of timer job does not have to be available on all servers, right? All search components are healthy in your farm, the search functionality is working normally. I think you can ignore this problem since there are no specific errors in your farm.


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Thanks for the reply. I don't think this is the case, for example two missing jobs related to analytics are important and must be there. Popularity trend reports are not showing any data in it from the same day search started reporting degraded. I am not sure about the role of other jobs, but we definitely need to bring back analytics related jobs. Link below is talking about it but its only regarding analytics job.
https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/sharepoint-popularity-trends-not-working-as-expected/

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