The SearchStax Site Search solution’s Crawler add-on offers transformers to normalize string and text field values. This feature is exclusively available for applications using the Crawler for data ingestion. How… Continue reading Crawler Transformations
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Crawler Content Field
The SearchStax Site Search solution’s Crawler add-on has a catch-all system field, content, that collects all the text on a web page and tokenizes it for keyword search. Depending on… Continue reading Crawler Content Field
Clear a Site Search Index
The SearchStax Site Search solution’s crawler add-on can be reconfigured at will to improve its results. Pages that can no longer be reached by the modified crawler are automatically deleted… Continue reading Clear a Site Search Index
Sitecore Solr Cloud Connection Errors
SearchStax Managed Search service customers sometimes encounter issues when connecting Sitecore to Solr Cloud for the first time. The issues are so common that a developer can encounter them in… Continue reading Sitecore Solr Cloud Connection Errors
Timeouts during indexing: Too many commits!
SearchStax Managed Search service clients sometimes complain that a collection has stopped responding during batch ingestion of new documents. Frequently, the root problem is too-frequent attempts to “commit” the new… Continue reading Timeouts during indexing: Too many commits!
Solr Master/Slave Architecture
SearchStax Managed Search service users sometimes ask if SearchStax supports Solr’s Master/Slave Architecture. Solr Master/Slave Architecture SearchStax does not offer Solr Master/Slave systems in our cloud deployments. All Managed Search… Continue reading Solr Master/Slave Architecture
Solr Blue-Green Architecture
SearchStax Managed Search service clients sometimes ask us about a Blue-Green Deployment architecture. The Blue deployment is the prod server that responds to queries. The Green deployment has identical content… Continue reading Solr Blue-Green Architecture
Does Solr’s SWAP work with SearchStax?
SearchStax Managed Search service clients sometimes use Solr’s SWAP command when prototyping a local Solr instance. This uses a secondary core which can be read while the primary core is… Continue reading Does Solr’s SWAP work with SearchStax?
Will an upgrade help?
SearchStax Managed Search service clients often ask use if upgrading a deployment will improve performance. Solr is a complex software product that tries to “degrade gracefully” when it is overloaded… Continue reading Will an upgrade help?
Can I make a “major” Solr upgrade?
A “major” SearchStax Managed Search service Solr upgrade means to go from Solr 6.x to Solr 7.x, or from Solr 7.x to Solr 8.x. These are non-trivial upgrades because they… Continue reading Can I make a “major” Solr upgrade?