SolrCloud Autoscaling Automatically Adding Replicas

The autoAddReplicas Parameter

The boolean autoAddReplicas parameter can be passed to the CREATE command of the Collection API to enable this feature for a given collection.

http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=CREATE&name=my_collection&numShards=1&replicationFactor=5&autoAddReplicas=true

The MODIFYCOLLECTION command can be used to enable or disable this feature for any collection.

http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=MODIFYCOLLECTION&collection=my_collection&autoAddReplicas=false

Implementation Using .autoAddReplicas Trigger

A Trigger named .autoAddReplicas is automatically created whenever any collection has the autoAddReplicas feature enabled.

Only one trigger is sufficient to serve all collections having this feature enabled. The .autoAddReplicas trigger watches for nodes that are lost from the cluster and uses the default TriggerActions to create new replicas to replace the ones which were hosted by the lost node. If the old node comes back online, it unloads the moved replicas and the node is free to host other replicas as and when required.

Since the trigger provides the autoAddReplicas feature for all collections, the suspend-trigger and resume-trigger Autoscaling API commands can be used to disable and enable this feature for all collections in one API call.

{
  "suspend-trigger": {
    "name" : ".autoAddReplicas"
  }
}

{
  "resume-trigger": {
    "name" : ".autoAddReplicas"
  }
}

Using Cluster Property to Enable autoAddReplicas

A cluster property, also named autoAddReplicas, can be set to false to disable this feature for all collections. If this cluster property is missing or set to true, the autoAddReplicas is enabled for all collections.