https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/disk-space-maintenance/m-p/29101#M96667 <P>Yes there is but the defaults might not be appropriate for everyone and it's global.<BR /> Here <A href="http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/Setaretirementandarchivingpolicy">Set a retirement and archiving policy</A> more info how to configure and as well can be done per index.</P> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:33:22 GMT MarioM 2011-06-16T07:33:22Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/disk-space-maintenance/m-p/29100#M96666 <P>Is there an automatic maintenance task to shrink the database files (delete the oldest file) to avoid the disk space messages?</P> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:12:25 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/disk-space-maintenance/m-p/29100#M96666 coba 2011-06-16T07:12:25Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/disk-space-maintenance/m-p/29101#M96667 <P>Yes there is but the defaults might not be appropriate for everyone and it's global.<BR /> Here <A href="http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/Setaretirementandarchivingpolicy">Set a retirement and archiving policy</A> more info how to configure and as well can be done per index.</P> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:33:22 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/disk-space-maintenance/m-p/29101#M96667 MarioM 2011-06-16T07:33:22Z