Using the Solr administration panel for monitoring

Monitoring is crucial for a production environment. We want to be able to see all the needed metrics that can show us whether our Solr cluster is healthy. We want to be able to see the operating system and Java Virtual Machine metrics, such as network statistics, garbage collector work, and so on. By default, Solr comes with the administration panel that allows you to see the basic statistics regarding it and the JMX connectivity so that we can integrate it with monitoring systems such as Ganglia. This recipe will show you what information you can get by looking at the Solr administration panel.

How to do it...

  1. When opening the Solr administration panel in our browser (http://localhost:8983/solr/#/ ...

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