Hi,

I didn't check your metrics but my first impression was this might be related to the internal thread pool. Can you try out the 0.6.0 pre-release version or master version? Remember to set `storage.cql.executor-service.enabled` to false. Before 0.6.0, an internal thread pool was used to process all CQL queries, which had a hard-coded 15 threads. https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/pull/2700 made the thread pool configurable, and https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/pull/2741 further made this thread pool optional.

EDIT: Just realized your problem was related to the horizontal scaling of JanusGraph instances. Then this internal thread pool thing is likely not related - but still worth trying.

Hope this helps.

Best,
Boxuan