Cache prewarming
Last updated 2026-06-14
Definition
Cache prewarming fills Quri’s caches and metric catalogs ahead of time, so your first read of the day is not a cold one. Instead of waiting for you to ask before fetching, Quri populates the common queries in advance. When you open a view, the answer is already warm and loads fast rather than rebuilding from scratch.
How to do this in Quri
- Connect your sources at /app/connect so Quri knows what to prewarm.
- Quri populates catalogs and common reads in the background ahead of demand.
- Open your usual views in /app and find them already warm and quick to load.
- Check the freshness banner to see when each prewarmed value was last fetched.
Frequently asked
- Why prewarm instead of fetching when I ask?
- A cold first fetch is the slow one. By populating common reads and catalogs ahead of demand, Quri turns your first load into a warm cache hit instead of a from-scratch rebuild, so the page is ready when you open it.
- Does prewarmed data go stale?
- It carries the same freshness banner as any cached value, and the background refresh keeps it current. Prewarming is about avoiding a cold start, not about freezing an old number in place.