1. Create Your Account

Head to opensolr.com and click Sign Up in the top-right corner. Enter your email and choose a password. You'll receive a confirmation email — click the link to activate your account, then log in.

Once logged in, you'll land on your Dashboard — the central hub for managing everything: indexes, clusters, billing, team members, and API keys.

2. Create Your First Index

From your Dashboard, go to My Indexes and click Add New. You'll be prompted to:

1. Select a region — US-East, US-West, EU-Central, EU-West, EU-North, or Asia-Pacific
2. Choose a Solr version — Solr 5 through Solr 9 available across regions
3. Name your index — give it a meaningful name (e.g. my_website, product_search) or keep the auto-generated ID

Click Add Index and your index is provisioned in seconds. You'll immediately see your connection details: hostname, port, authentication credentials, and the full Solr URL.

For a detailed visual walkthrough, see Create a New Index — Step by Step.

3. Upload Your Configuration

Click your index name to enter its Index Control Panel, then go to Configuration in the sidebar. Here you can:

• Edit config files live — schema.xml, solrconfig.xml, synonyms, stopwords, and more, directly in the browser
• Upload a config zip — download a ready-made config set for your CMS or upload your own custom schema

For most CMS integrations, you'll download the config set from within the CMS module itself (Search API Solr for Drupal generates one automatically). For custom applications, you can start with the default config and adjust fields as needed.

See Solr Configuration Files Dependency Flow for details on how schema.xml, solrconfig.xml, and other config files work together.

4. Connect Your Application

5. Quick API Examples

Once your index is live and configured, you can interact with it directly via HTTP. Replace USER:PASS with your index credentials and CLUSTER.opensolr.com with your cluster hostname.

Search (SELECT)

curl -u USER:PASS "https://CLUSTER.opensolr.com/solr/INDEX_NAME/select?q=laptop&rows=10&wt=json"

Index a Document (UPDATE)

curl -u USER:PASS "https://CLUSTER.opensolr.com/solr/INDEX_NAME/update?commit=true" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"id":"1","title":"My First Document","content":"Hello Solr!"}]'

Delete by ID

curl -u USER:PASS "https://CLUSTER.opensolr.com/solr/INDEX_NAME/update?commit=true" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"delete":{"id":"1"}}'

PHP Example

$url = 'https://CLUSTER.opensolr.com/solr/INDEX_NAME/select?q=laptop&wt=json';
$context = stream_context_create(['http' => [
    'header' => 'Authorization: Basic ' . base64_encode('USER:PASS')
]]);
$response = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
$data = json_decode($response, true);
print_r($data['response']['docs']);

JavaScript (Fetch)

const response = await fetch(
  'https://CLUSTER.opensolr.com/solr/INDEX_NAME/select?q=laptop&wt=json',
  { headers: { 'Authorization': 'Basic ' + btoa('USER:PASS') } }
);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.response.docs);

For a complete reference of all search parameters (q, fq, sort, fl, facet, etc.), see Querying the Solr API: Search Parameters Explained.

6. Your Control Panel

For a full overview, see What is the Opensolr Control Panel?

7. Troubleshooting

8. Helpful Resources

Real-Time Solr Monitoring & Analytics

Monitor Your Search Performance Like Never Before

OpenSolr brings enterprise-grade monitoring directly into your dashboard. No setup, no configuration, no external tools - just powerful real-time insights into your Solr infrastructure the moment you need them.

📈 Live Query Volume Tracking

See your search traffic as it happens. Our real-time query volume chart updates every second, giving you instant visibility into traffic patterns, usage spikes, and query trends.

Perfect for:

• Identifying traffic patterns and peak usage times
• Capacity planning and scaling decisions
• Detecting unusual activity or traffic spikes
• Understanding user behavior in real-time

🔍 Complete Query Stream Analysis

Every query that hits your Solr index is captured and displayed in real-time. See exactly what your users are searching for, how long queries take, and which searches are performing well.

What You Get:

• Timestamp Precision - Track when every query executed
• Full Query Details - See paths, parameters, and search terms
• Performance Metrics - Response times displayed to the millisecond
• Result Counts - Understand how many hits each query returns
• Status Monitoring - Catch errors and issues instantly

Smart Filtering lets you search through thousands of queries using regex patterns on paths and parameters. Find exactly what you're looking for in seconds.

🔬 Deep Query Inspection

Click any query to see the complete breakdown. Every parameter, every filter, every detail - presented clearly and ready to analyze or test.

See Everything:

• Complete query string ready to copy and test
• All parameters displayed in an easy-to-read table
• Multi-value parameters (like filter queries) shown properly
• Clean formatting - no URL encoding clutter

Perfect for debugging, optimization, and understanding exactly what your application is sending to Solr.

⚡ Smart Slow Query Detection

Slow queries hurt user experience and waste resources. Our intelligent slow query monitor automatically identifies and tracks queries that need attention.

Customizable Thresholds: Set your own definition of "slow" - from 0.2 seconds to 1.0 seconds - and let OpenSolr automatically flag queries that exceed your threshold.

Why It Matters:

• Identify optimization opportunities
• Find queries that need better indexing
• Track performance improvements over time
• Proactively address issues before users complain

Queries are sorted by response time, putting your slowest queries front and center where they belong.

🖥️ Real-Time Server Health Monitoring

Your Solr server's vital signs, updated live. Monitor CPU, memory, disk usage, and load averages - all in one beautiful dashboard.

System Metrics Include:

• CPU Usage - Real-time processor utilization with trend graphs
• Memory Consumption - RAM usage tracking over time
• System Load - 1, 5, and 15-minute load averages
• Disk Capacity - Visual indicators show available space at a glance

Everything updates automatically - no refreshing needed. Just watch your infrastructure perform.

🎯 Getting Started

Accessing your monitoring dashboard is simple:

1. Log into your OpenSolr Control Panel
2. Select any of your Solr indexes
3. Find the monitoring options in the left sidebar:
   • "Solr Log" for real-time query monitoring
   • "Server Monitor" for system health metrics

That's it. Your monitoring is already running, already collecting data, already ready to use.

✨ Why OpenSolr Monitoring Stands Out

Built for the way you work:

• Zero Setup - Start monitoring the moment you create an index
• Real-Time Updates - See changes as they happen, not minutes later
• Millisecond Precision - Accurate performance metrics you can trust
• Intelligent Filtering - Find the queries that matter
• Always Included - No extra fees, no add-ons, no hidden costs

Professional tools at your fingertips: Every OpenSolr account includes full monitoring capabilities. Whether you're running a small blog or a high-traffic e-commerce platform, you get the same powerful insights.

💡 Real-World Benefits

For Developers: Debug issues faster, optimize queries with confidence, and understand exactly how your search is performing in production.

For Operations: Monitor server health, plan capacity needs, and catch problems before they impact users.

For Business: Understand search usage patterns, improve user experience, and make data-driven decisions about your search infrastructure.

🚀 The OpenSolr Advantage

Professional search infrastructure shouldn't require enterprise budgets or DevOps teams. OpenSolr delivers powerful, production-ready monitoring as part of every account.

This is what modern search infrastructure looks like.

Monitoring is included with all OpenSolr plans. Log in now to start exploring your data.

Need help? Our team is here: support@opensolr.com | Documentation

Step-by-Step Walkthrough

1

Log in to your Opensolr account

Head to opensolr.com/login and sign in with your email and password.

2

Open the Control Panel

Click your username in the top-right corner and select Control Panel from the dropdown menu.

3

Click "Add New"

Inside your Dashboard, open the My Indexes menu and click Add New to start creating a new index.

4

Choose your region and Solr version

Use the filter dropdowns to select a Region, Solr Version, and optionally a Country. Clusters are available across US-East, US-West, EU-Central, EU-West, EU-North, and Asia-Pacific.

Click the region card that matches your needs — or use Request Env. to request a custom dedicated environment.

5

Name your index and create it

Give your index a meaningful name or keep the auto-generated unique ID. Click Add Index and your index will be provisioned in seconds.

6

Open your Index Control Panel

Back on the My Indexes page, click your index name to enter its dedicated Control Panel — where you manage configuration, security, analytics, and more.

7

Upload your Solr configuration

Go to Configuration in the sidebar. Edit config files live, or upload a ready-made Solr Config Zip (e.g. for Drupal, WordPress, or your own custom setup). Your index is now ready to receive data.

What You Get

Your Dashboard

What You Can Do

Dashboard at a Glance

Getting Started

New to Opensolr? Follow the step-by-step guide to creating your first index — from login to a production-ready Solr index in under two minutes.

Delete by Query

Delete by Query lets you remove documents from your Opensolr index that match a specific Solr query. Instead of wiping your entire index and re-indexing from scratch, you can surgically target exactly the documents you want to remove — whether that is a single document by ID, an entire category, URLs matching a pattern, or records older than a certain date.

How to Access It

Query Syntax Examples

After executing a delete query, always click Commit (or use the Commit utility button below) to flush the changes to disk and make the deletions visible in search results.

The Tools Panel

Index Utilities

The utility buttons below the Delete by Query form give you full control over your index lifecycle — from reloading configuration to restarting the Solr process itself.

Pro Tips