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Why are universal forwarders reporting error "Metric with the name thruput:thruput already registered"?

pilzi81 — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:04:04 GMT

Hi there,

By examining the _internal logs I found the following, Metric Error:

ERROR Metrics - Metric with name thruput:thruput already registered

It is reported by Universal Forwarders of several Clients spread over the entire day (with peaks in the morning hours - so I suppose that it's related to the client's start-up)

The interesting thing is, that all of these clients are still reporting events to the Indexers...

Questions:
Why does this happen?
And how can I avoid this?

thx

Re: Why are universal forwarders reporting error "Metric with the name thruput:thruput already registered"?

skalliger — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:53:58 GMT

Sorry for bringing up this old thread but are there any news about this? We ran into the same issue on our UF (version 6.5.0).

Re: Why are universal forwarders reporting error "Metric with the name thruput:thruput already registered"?

Kieffer87 — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 18:16:41 GMT

We are also experiencing this on our universal forwarders.

Re: Why are universal forwarders reporting error "Metric with the name thruput:thruput already registered"?

adonio — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 18:46:26 GMT

do you get this error on both windows and linux forwarders or windows only?

Re: Why are universal forwarders reporting error "Metric with the name thruput:thruput already registered"?

Kieffer87 — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 20:05:50 GMT

I get it on both but far more windows than linux. Also not all forwarders are experiencing this error despite running the same 6.5.3 version of Splunk.

Re: Why are universal forwarders reporting error "Metric with the name thruput:thruput already registered"?

pilzi81 — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 08:37:07 GMT

Since I created this thread I've seen this error on different UF versions (6.3.x, 6.4.x and our most recent UF version 6.5.3) as well as on different OS (windows, linux, macOS).

Re: Why are universal forwarders reporting error "Metric with the name thruput:thruput already registered"?

ss026381 — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:58:58 GMT

Although we see events from the forwarder but we see this error. Any idea what this error means?

Re: Why are universal forwarders reporting error "Metric with the name thruput:thruput already registered"?

jnew_splunk — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 11:10:09 GMT

This is a known Universal Forwarder issue (SPL-103209) effecting 6.3 and above. Currently there is no patch but the error is benign and can be ignored.

Re: Why are universal forwarders reporting error "Metric with the name thruput:thruput already registered"?

LCanac31 — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:46:56 GMT

Hello i have this issue on each restart of UF 7.0.8, is there some updates?
Thanks

Re: Why are universal forwarders reporting error "Metric with the name thruput:thruput already registered"?

tskht — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 07:35:10 GMT

When I installed and started Universal Forwarder 9.1.0.1, the following ERROR occurred:

ERROR Metrics - Metric with name='thruput:thruput' already registered
ERROR Metrics - Metric with name='thruput:idxSummary' already registered

Is this issue still persisting even with version 9.1.0.1?