I have a question about how the stat 'requests' is calculated. I would really appreciate it if anyone could shed some light on the figures below.

Assumptions:
  version: 5.2.0
  layout: 8 node solrcloud, no replicas (node71-node78)
  collection: col1
  handler: /search
  stats request: /col1/admin/mbeans?stats=true&cat=QUERYHANDLER&wt=json'

I wrote a simple shell script that grabs the requests stats member from every node.

After collection reload
node 71 -- requests: 2
node 72 -- requests: 2
node 73 -- requests: 2
node 74 -- requests: 2
node 75 -- requests: 2
node 76 -- requests: 2
node 77 -- requests: 2
node 78 -- requests: 2
* I assume these are the auto-warm searches


After submitting 1 request (q=*:*)
node 71 -- requests: 4
node 72 -- requests: 3
node 73 -- requests: 3
node 74 -- requests: 3
node 75 -- requests: 3
node 76 -- requests: 4
node 77 -- requests: 3
node 78 -- requests: 3

After resubmitting the same request
node 71 -- requests: 6
node 72 -- requests: 4
node 73 -- requests: 4
node 74 -- requests: 4
node 75 -- requests: 4
node 76 -- requests: 5
node 77 -- requests: 5
node 78 -- requests: 4

If that wasn't strange enough, things get out of control if I add in facet.pivot parameter(s)

Fresh after reload (see above, 2 for every node)

Total after a facet.pivot on two fields
node 71 -- requests: 13
node 72 -- requests: 15
node 73 -- requests: 14
node 74 -- requests: 12
node 75 -- requests: 14
node 76 -- requests: 12
node 77 -- requests: 14
node 78 -- requests: 12

I imagine I'm seeing the internal cross-talk between nodes and if so, how can one reliably keep stats on the number of "real" requests?

thanks

David

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