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Sitecore Healthchecks for SolrCloud do not include Switching indexes

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Last week we had an issue that caused Sitecore to be unable to connect to SolrCloud. Therefore, the container Readiness healthchecks failed, resulting in loss of service. This has been fixed.

During the incident, we noticed in the telemetry that we were seeing Healthcheck Failures for most of the search indexes. However, not all – master, web, and preview were all missing. This was puzzling. One commonality between the missing checks was that all missing indexes used Switch on Rebuild functionality to ensure service, even during a full index rebuild.

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Sitecore Healthchecks for SolrCloud do not include Switching indexes

Drives used for SQL databases are running out of free space

Andy Burns1 Comment

Nearly all SharePoint farms I look at show the error:

Drives used for SQL databases are running out of free space

However, this seems to happen even on SharePoint farms where there is tonnes of space. It’s always puzzled me, and it results in many customers simply ignoring the warning, ‘cos they can’t figure out why they’re getting it, and having checked the drives they think they’re fine (and they probably are).

Well Zoltan Kovacs has a very good analysis. It’s well worth a read. Continue reading “Drives used for SQL databases are running out of free space” →

Drives used for SQL databases are running out of free space