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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

Performance statistics


In order to measure performance, Solr provides statistics and metrics; they can read either using Metrics API or by enabling JMX.

Statistics for request handlers

Both search and update request handlers provide various statistics.

The API request path for search is http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/metrics?group=mycore&prefix=QUERY./select.

Similarly the API request path for update is http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/metrics?group=mycore&prefix=UPDATE./update.

There are various attributes that can be added at the end of both of these URLs to get various statistics, as listed here:

  • 5minRate: Used to find out the requests per second that have we received in the last 5 minutes.
  • 15minRate: Same as 5minRate, but here we check for requests per second in the last 15 minutes.
  • p75_ms/p95_ms/p99_ms/p999_ms: Each of the four attributes represent how much processing time x percentile of the request took. x is to be replaced by the number specified.
  • count: Number of requests made...