Is there an easy way to know if a Solr cloud node is a shard leader?

I would like to be able to do it without consulting Zookeeper. Is there some variable or API I can call on a specific Solr cloud node to know if it is currently a shard leader? The reason I want to know is I want to perform index backup on the shard leader from a cron job *only* if that node

Re: Is there an easy way to know if a Solr cloud node is a shard leader?

If you call /solr/zookeeper on a specific node, that servlet would tell you - output is a bit verbose for what you want though. - Mark On Jul 9, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Robert Stewart robert_stew...@epam.com wrote: I would like to be able to do it without consulting Zookeeper. Is there some