eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by SolrCoreUpdaTest

Solr supports several modifiers that atomically update values of a document. This allows updating only specific fields, which can help speed indexing processes in an environment where speed of index additions is critical to the application.

This test monitors the update requests to Solr Server and collects metrics which provide administrators key insights into update performance. This test reports the errors encountered during update, time taken through the process and if there was any timeout.

Outputs of the test: One set of results for each Solr request handler in each Solr core in Solr setup.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
errors Indicates the number of errors encountered by handler. Number Ideally the value of this measure should be 0.
clientErrors Indicates the number of syntax or parse errors made by the client while making the request. Number Although can't do much about the client errors but you can take a look at errors reported just to ensure that they are informative enough.
serverErrors Indicates the number of errors reported by the server while executing the request. Number The server errors should be investigated if they are because of missing documents or if because one of the components is malfunctioning.
requests Indicates the number of requests of any kind made by client. Number It should be noted that all the requests are being replicated across the slave servers.
timeouts Indicates the number of times when the response was received with partial results. Number Again it needs t be investigated if timeout happened because of lack of compute resources or cache unavailability etc.
handlerStart Indicates the time it took for replication handler to be registered and started. Minutes The request handler for replication should start immediately as soon as data is updated on Solr server, if the delay is more than tolerance limit, you may need to investigate the same.