topic Re: How to create a new index in an index cluster? in Deployment Architecture

How to create a new index in an index cluster?

Payne1882 — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 01:26:18 GMT

I have 1 Master, 1 Search Head and 3 Index peers in my cluster.

What is the Correct process for creating new indexes?

I understand I can create the indexes.conf file on the master in master-apps/_cluster and push out using configuration bundle. This came back successful. But if I go to "Settings > Indexes" then I cannot see my new index that I specified in the indexes.conf file.

Have I missed something in the UI?

I cannot see the Db directory's that are created for the buckets which I specified in the indexes.conf file.

Re: How to create a new index in an index cluster?

richgalloway — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:45:34 GMT

You have the right procedure for adding an index to your indexers. To make the index visible to your search head, you must also copy indexes.conf from the Master Node to the SH. Restart or refresh (https://yourhost:8000/en-US/debug/refresh) the SH to apply the change.

Re: How to create a new index in an index cluster?

pradeepkumarg — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:46:02 GMT

On which instance are you checking the settings? You should check on the peer and not the master.
You can also check the "index clusterting" page on the master if you enabled the replication for that index.

 repFactor = auto

Re: How to create a new index in an index cluster?

ddrillic — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:42:55 GMT

@Payne1882, keep in mind that you can see the indexes on the file systems of the indexers and via the UI of the indexers. And usually you don't need the indexes to be visible in the UI of the SHs, unless, for example, you upload data via the UI to a specific index...

Re: How to create a new index in an index cluster?

Payne1882 — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 08:05:00 GMT

Thank you for your help guys, this has cleared it up for me.

Re: How to create a new index in an index cluster?

Prakash493 — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:33:44 GMT

Hi , i am also in the same situation , i create the indexes in master-apps and push it out successfully , my concern is we are using search head cluster with a search head deployer to push the apps , do i need to copy my indexes.conf to each of the search heads too if so only search head or in search head deployer too. in which location of search head i need to copy and paster the indexes.conf

Re: How to create a new index in an index cluster?

risgupta — Tue, 21 May 2019 10:23:53 GMT

No it is not required to push the indexes config to search heads

Re: How to create a new index in an index cluster?

Jarohnimo — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 23:21:15 GMT

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Re: How to create a new index in an index cluster?

shashi12345678 — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:54:58 GMT

I'm facing the same issue, I have created new index under /opt/splunk/etc/master-apps/_cluster/local. on master node
Indexes.conf
[test]
disabled = false
repFactor = auto
homePath = $SPLUNK_DB/test/db
coldPath = $SPLUNK_DB/test/colddb
thawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB/test/thaweddb
tstatsHomePath = volume:_splunk_summaries/test/datamodel_summary
maxMemMB = 20
maxConcurrentOptimizes = 6
maxHotIdleSecs = 86400
maxHotBuckets = 10
maxDataSize = auto_high_volume

and I was able to see the index on all 3-peers from backend, but couldn't the index from any peer UI and also was unable to index any data to that index (test)