Hi Lindsey Were you every able to figure out the reason for this behavior? We are experiencing the same issue with solr cloud version 4.10
http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/jira-Commented-SOLR-7030-replicas-goes-in-recovery-mode-right-after-update-td4181881.html https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7030 We even tried to remove the replicas to get around this issue. However we cannot do that for the collection that is serving our live traffic. Any suggestions ? Vijay -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Re-Unexplained-leader-initiated-recovery-after-updates-SolrCmdDistributor-no-longer-retries-on-Remotn-tp4179309p4181882.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.