DSE Solr core status never shows "current" when using RT indexing

Summary

The Solr UI admin core status never shows as current when using RT indexing

Symptoms

The core status will not be indexing but the status will never be current as per this example:

Cause

When using RT indexing this status is never set to current

The following internal jira was raised to track this issue:

DSP-9838 - DSE Solr core status never shows "current" when using RT indexing

Workaround

Check the logs / core status, if the core is not indexing then it could be safe to assume the core is current. See the docs:

https://docs.datastax.com/en/datastax_enterprise/4.8/datastax_enterprise/srch/srchCkIdx.html

Solution

At the time of writing this note, this issue is still outstanding.