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Jan Høydahl commented on SOLR-15300:
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{quote}Agreed. I would prefer to put it into each collection's props, perhaps
using a less awkward name "liveState" ? after all, we already report here other
calculated data that doesn't come from state.json, such as aliases and roles.
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You are right, we add "aliases", "conigName" and "znodeVersion". So adding a
computed shard liveState would be possible. What should its possible values be?
It is some kind of a composite/derived value... Perhaps three keys:
{{"numReplicas": 5, "liveReplicas": 5, "shardLive": true}} ?
> Shard "state" flag is confusing and of limited value to outside consumers
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> Key: SOLR-15300
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-15300
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
> Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki
> Assignee: Andrzej Bialecki
> Priority: Major
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> Solr API (and consequently the metric reporters, which are often used for
> Solr monitoring) report the shard as being in ACTIVE state even when in
> reality its functionality is severely compromised (eg. no replicas, all
> replicas down, or no leader).
> This reported state is technically correct because it is used only for
> tracking of the SPLITSHARD operations, as defined in {{Slice.State}}.
> However, this may be misleading and more often unhelpful than not - for
> constant monitoring a flag that actually reports impaired functionality of a
> shard would be more useful than a flag that reports a relatively uncommon
> SPLITSHARD operation.
> We could either redefine the meaning of the existing flag (and change its
> state according to some of the criteria I listed above), or add another flag
> to represent the "health" status of a shard. The value of this flag would
> then provide an easy way to monitor and to alert external systems of
> dangerous function impairment, without monitoring the state of all replicas
> of a collection.
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