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What is the difference between index and indexer?

davidsplunk100 — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 08:03:58 GMT

What is the difference between INDEX and INDEXER in SPLUNK

Re: What is the difference between index and indexer?

martin_mueller — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 09:50:32 GMT

https://docs.splunk.com/Splexicon:Index
https://docs.splunk.com/Splexicon:Indexer

An indexer is a splunk instance, a separate machine - an index is a structure to store data on those indexers.

Re: What is the difference between index and indexer?

kamlesh_vaghela — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 09:52:20 GMT

Hi @davidsplunk100 ,

index. : The repository for data in Splunk Enterprise. When Splunk Enterprise indexes raw event data, it transforms the data into searchable events. ... In general, the act of processing raw data and adding the processed data to an index.

https://docs.splunk.com/Splexicon:Index

indexer: A Splunk Enterprise instance that indexes data, transforming raw data into events and placing the results into an index. It also searches the indexed data in response to search requests.

https://docs.splunk.com/Splexicon:Indexer

Check below link for more information:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.1/Indexer/Aboutindexesandindexers

Thanks
Kamlesh