Himmat Singh Dulawat (3x Sitecore MVP)

If you are on Sitecore Managed Cloud and your SOLR is with Managed Cloud Server Searchstax then it is not easy to manage it. In today’s blog, I am going to discuss how to manage Managed Cloud SOLR Server, especially Restart SOLR. After successfully setting up Sitecore and SOLR instance by Sitecore, Sitecore provides you the URL of SOLR Server and the following details: Solr server connection string Solr server URL Zookeeper Ensemble API key Solr server user Solr server password To access the SOLR admin UI: Open the https://<server_name>-azure.searchstax.com/solr/ URL and enter the Username and Password. Get a List of Nodes: Before doing this exercise, you need to find the number of nodes in your SOLR server (a standard server consists of 3 nodes). For example, if your server_name provided by Sitecore is "ss123456" then ideally your nodes will be ss123456-1, ss123456-2, ss123456-3. By using the below URL, you can ...

In continuation of the cache tunning, if your website is multilingual then you may need to tune the isLanguageFallbackValid field cache value. The initial thought was it could be tuned using the Small Cache Size as <setting name="Caching.SmallCacheSize" set:value="200MB" />  But "Caching.SmallCacheSize" no longer controls isLanguageFallbackValid due to a Feature Request with reference number 221831.  Starting with Sitecore 9.2, the cache size now depends on setting Caching.IsFallbackValid.DefaultCacheSize To find out about how to tune cache in Sitecore,  See the blog post- Cache Tunning in Sitecore To find out more about monitoring and tuning cache on CD Server, see the blog post- Monitor and Tune Cache on CD Server Happy Sitecoreing  😊