It is probably more of a design flaw than an outright bug, and I think it was
addressed with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-15300 (released in
8.9).
As explained in that issue, that `state` flag was only meant to reflect the
state during SPLITSHARD operations, but that’s actually a
Howdy,
Solr 7.7, in Cloud, with ~400 cores spread over 6 chunky servers.
We've noticed that CLUSTERSTATUS occasionally contains incorrect
information. This mostly seems to happen when things are pear shaped
(couple of servers down, shards recovering, that sort of thing).
Here's an example where