Try querying the recovering core with distrib=false, you should get the count of docs in it.
Most likely, since the replica is recovering it is forwarding all queries to the active replica, this can be verified in the core logs. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Question-about-solrcloud-recovery-process-tp4145450p4145491.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.