Just wondered, solr cloud itself can handle node failings and load balancing. Why use an external cloud load balancer?
—ufuk yilmaz — > On 13 Jun 2023, at 10:28, Mikhail Khludnev <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hello > You can configure healthcheck > https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/health-check-concepts#criteria-protocol-http > with Solr's ping request handler > https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/deployment-guide/ping.html. > Also, Google cloud has sophisticated Traffic Director, which can also suit > for node failover. > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 9:13 AM Saksham Gupta > <saksham.gu...@indiamart.com.invalid> wrote: > >> Hi team, >> We need help with the strategy used to request data from solr cloud. >> >> *Current Searching Strategy:* >> We are using solr cloud 8.10 having 8 nodes with data sharded on the basis >> of an implicit route parameter. We send a search http request on google's >> network load balancer which divides requests amongst the 8 solr nodes. >> >> *Problem with this strategy:* >> If solr on any one of the nodes is down, the requests that come to this >> node give 5xx. >> >> We are thinking of other strategies like >> 1. adding 2 vanilla nodes to this cluster(which will contain no data) which >> will be used for aggregating and serving requests i.e. instead of sending >> requests from lb to the 8 nodes, we will be sending the requests to the new >> nodes which will send internal requests on other nodes and fetch required >> data. >> 2. Instead of dividing requests using a load balancer, we can use zookeeper >> to connect with solr cloud. >> >> Would these strategies work? Is there a more optimized way using which we >> can request on solr? >> > > > -- > Sincerely yours > Mikhail Khludnev
