Thanks Mark. I was able to search "Overseer" in the solr logs around the time frame of the condition. This particular message was from the leader node of the shard.
160201 11:26:36.380 localhost-startStop-1 Overseer (id=null) closing Also I found this message in the zookeeper logs. 11:26:35,218 [myid:02] - INFO [ProcessThread(sid:2 cport:-1)::PrepRequestProcessor@645] - Got user-level KeeperException when processing sessionid:0x15297c0fe2e3f2d type:create cxid:0x3 zxid:0xf0001be48 txntype:-1 reqpath:n/a Error Path:/overseer Error:KeeperErrorCode = NodeExists for /overseer Any thoughts what these messages suggest? -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/I-was-asked-to-wait-on-state-recovering-for-shard-but-I-still-do-not-see-the-request-state-tp4204348p4255105.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.