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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By : Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya
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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By: Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya

Overview of this book

Apache Solr is the only standalone enterprise search server with a REST-like application interface. providing highly scalable, distributed search and index replication for many of the world's largest internet sites. To begin with, you would be introduced to how you perform full text search, multiple filter search, perform dynamic clustering and so on helping you to brush up the basics of Apache Solr. You will also explore the new features and advanced options released in Apache Solr 7.x which will get you numerous performance aspects and making data investigation simpler, easier and powerful. You will learn to build complex queries, extensive filters and how are they compiled in your system to bring relevance in your search tools. You will learn to carry out Solr scoring, elements affecting the document score and how you can optimize or tune the score for the application at hand. You will learn to extract features of documents, writing complex queries in re-ranking the documents. You will also learn advanced options helping you to know what content is indexed and how the extracted content is indexed. Throughout the book, you would go through complex problems with solutions along with varied approaches to tackle your business needs. By the end of this book, you will gain advanced proficiency to build out-of-box smart search solutions for your enterprise demands.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Logging configuration


Setting up logs is a key part of any enterprise application and Solr is no exception. Luckily, Solr provides many different ways to tweak the default logging configuration.

Log settings using the admin web interface

Using Solr's admin web interface, we can set various log levels. Go to the admin interface by typing the following URL:

http://localhost:8983/solr/

You should see the following admin screen:

You will see that on the left-hand side, there is a Logging option. Click on it and there will be a submenu item called Level, which will open up the following screen:

Here, we can set the logging level for many different log categories in a hierarchical order. For example, let's say I want to set org.apache.http.conn.ssl to log level and set all the subcategories under it to debug level; I will click on the edit icon next to ssl, as shown here:

This will open up a small popup with various log levels that we can set.

Note

Any log level set in this manner will be lost during the...