https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Single-Search-Head-Single-Indexer-distributed-search/m-p/490560#M83857 <P>Hi and welcome,</P> <P>when you are downloading, installing and starting Splunk, you would have a single-instance (often called "all in one" instance). Please refer <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/Deploy/Singleindexer">to the docs</A> for an explanation of this.<BR /> Splunk scales from a single server to multiple ones, both Search Heads and indexers. This is referred to as a distributed deployment and described <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/Deploy/Deploymentcharacteristics">here in the docs</A>.</P> <P>Please use Google to search through Splunk Docs or Answers as they're visible to anyone and this question has been asked quite a few times. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> <P>Skalli</P> Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:49:54 GMT skalliger 2019-11-27T12:49:54Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Single-Search-Head-Single-Indexer-distributed-search/m-p/490559#M83856 <P>Hi, </P> <P>Is it possible to create a single search head instance ? <BR /> And or a single indexer instane? - Or are the instances by default indexers? </P> Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:34:11 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Single-Search-Head-Single-Indexer-distributed-search/m-p/490559#M83856 splunk_user_99 2019-11-27T10:34:11Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Single-Search-Head-Single-Indexer-distributed-search/m-p/490560#M83857 <P>Hi and welcome,</P> <P>when you are downloading, installing and starting Splunk, you would have a single-instance (often called "all in one" instance). Please refer <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/Deploy/Singleindexer">to the docs</A> for an explanation of this.<BR /> Splunk scales from a single server to multiple ones, both Search Heads and indexers. This is referred to as a distributed deployment and described <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/Deploy/Deploymentcharacteristics">here in the docs</A>.</P> <P>Please use Google to search through Splunk Docs or Answers as they're visible to anyone and this question has been asked quite a few times. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> <P>Skalli</P> Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:49:54 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Single-Search-Head-Single-Indexer-distributed-search/m-p/490560#M83857 skalliger 2019-11-27T12:49:54Z