Solr index “commit” events are a necessary evil that often get out of hand. A commit involves writing a segment file to the disk (which can trigger segment sorting and… Continue reading Taming Commits
Help Center Categories: Solr Topics
What is a Collection/ Core/ Shard/ Replica? What is HA/ FT/ DR?
SearchStax Cloud is a fully-managed hosted Solr SaaS solution that automates, manages and scales Solr infrastructure. Here is a short glossary to help you understand the components of a SearchStax… Continue reading What is a Collection/ Core/ Shard/ Replica? What is HA/ FT/ DR?
How to Optimize Solr for Performance?
If your Solr system has low performance, out-of-memory errors, or frequent issues with replicas falling into recovery mode, then be sure to read the following helpful publications: Questions? Do not… Continue reading How to Optimize Solr for Performance?
Why is the Config API disabled?
SearchStax Cloud users sometimes discover that the Config API feature has been disabled in their Solr Cloud deployments by the Solr system property disable.configEdit=true. (It has no effect on config… Continue reading Why is the Config API disabled?
Why is the Configset API Disabled?
Users of Solr versions 6.6.0 to 8.6.2 sometimes discover that the Solr Configsets API feature has been disabled in their SearchStax Cloud deployments by the system property configset.upload.enabled=false. (It has… Continue reading Why is the Configset API Disabled?
Solr Schema API
SearchStax clients sometimes ask us how to use the Solr Schema API with SearchStax Cloud deployments. On this page we have collected some practical examples. Note that SearchStax personnel cannot… Continue reading Solr Schema API
Nodes Use Different Disk Space
SearchStax clients sometimes have questions about the Disk Usage graph. They wonder why one of their Solr nodes uses more disk space than the other(s). It is normal for Solr… Continue reading Nodes Use Different Disk Space
Timeouts during indexing: Too many commits!
We sometimes get a complaint that a collection has stopped responding during batch ingestion of new documents. Frequently, the root problem is too-frequent attempts to “commit” the new documents to… Continue reading Timeouts during indexing: Too many commits!
Solr Master/Slave Architecture
Users sometimes ask if SearchStax supports Solr’s Master/Slave Architecture. Solr Master/Slave Architecture SearchStax does not offer Solr Master/Slave systems in our cloud deployments. All SearchStax deployments are run in SolrCloud… Continue reading Solr Master/Slave Architecture
Solr Blue-Green Architecture
SearchStax clients sometimes ask us about a Blue-Green Deployment architecture. The Blue deployment is the prod server that responds to queries. The Green deployment has identical content for testing config… Continue reading Solr Blue-Green Architecture