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Getting Index Size in DSE Search

Applies to DSE Search versions 3.2 to 6.8

For some reason finding this information is dreadfully stupidly hard and I finally decided to write it down myself since I own it and someone may benefit from it some day. There are three ways that I know of (I am sure there is a JMX way I just do not happen to know it atm)

1. via curl (and using jq but grep will suffice) curl "http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/cores?action=STATUS&wt=json&indent=true" | jq '.status."mykeyspace.mytable".index.size'
2. via ls and awk (assuming no du is available as is the case in the dse docker image) ls -A -R -g -o "$@" /var/lib/cassandra/data/solr.data/mykeyspace.mytable/index | awk '{n1 += $3} END {print n1}' | awk '{ byte =$1 /1024/1024; print byte " MB" }'
3. via the solradmin and just eyeballing the per segment sizes http://localhost:8983/solr/#/mykeyspace.mytable/segments

I have had a deep dive to find this so many times I wish I had just posted this years ago