Thanks Erick. As I understand now that the entire cluster goes down if any one shard is down, my first confusion is clarified.
Following are the other details We really need to see details since I'm guessing we're talking past each other. So: *1> exactly how are you indexing documents?* /using HTTPSolrServer and placing all update request to leader1/shard1. Enabled autoCommit with 60 seconds and not placing any commit from client application./ *2> exactly how are you assigning a UUID to a doc?* /defined an unique field in schema.xml and it is generated by the client application, ID format is {mongoDBHostName}-{mongoDBName}-{UUID}. / *3> do you ever re-index documents? If so, how are you assuring that the UUID generated for any re-indexing operations are the same ones used the first time? * /Yes we are re-indexing documents. We are getting the UUID from mongodb and the ID generated is same while we are doing update as well, using the same code. / We are unable to guess the root cause for having duplicate documents in multiple shards. Also, it looks reindexing is the only solution for removing the duplicates. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-Cloud-Duplicate-documents-in-multiple-shards-tp4218162p4219251.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.